TokyoDev
Skyrocketing software developer salaries in Japan a portent of a seismic shift
Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their...
5th Feb 2021
Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their pay rising as their seniority increases. So uniform is compensation that common wisdom even gives [a formula](https://news.nicovideo.jp/watch/nw1745758) for what your monthly...
alexwlchan
Quietly quantum-resistant blogging
Among the other fun news recently, two papers were published that suggest quantum computers capable...
9th Apr 2026
Among the other fun news recently, two papers were published that suggest quantum computers capable of breaking classical public-key cryptography algorithms are much closer than previously believed.
What was thought to be years away might now be months.
I found Filippo Valsorda’s...
A Smart Bear
Letters to Joel Spolsky
I regret to inform you…
16th Jun 2009
The Codist
My Compensation Over Four Decades As A Programmer
It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job....
5th Jul 2023
It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job. Also, I never worked for a big tech company (other than Apple briefly, but that was when they were going out of business) and only a
Jordan Eldredge's...
Jazz Ukulele "Love Is a Song" from Bambi
I arranged and recorded 'Love Is a Song' from Walt Disney's Bambi on my new ukulele.
6th Feb 2010
I arranged and recorded 'Love Is a Song' from Walt Disney's Bambi on my new ukulele.
Ognjen Regoje •...
Green flags for investable founders
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and...
2nd Jan 2024
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and dedication.
Elevator pitch in LinkedIn tagline
A founder who is all in is constantly selling. That means their tagline will:
a) be for their company, not for them
b) be the sales pitch, not a...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Markdown Today: Journal from any browser
A private, mobile-first web app that writes your journal directly to Dropbox.
7th Apr 2017
A private, mobile-first web app that writes your journal directly to Dropbox.
Julia Evans
Reasons I still love the fish shell
I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years
of using it every day...
12th Sep 2024
I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years
of using it every day later, I’ve found even more reasons to love it. So I
thought I’d write a new post with both the old reasons I loved it and some
reasons.
This came up today because I was trying to...
Josh Comeau's blog
The “const” Deception
The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change....
24th Apr 2023
The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change. Curiously, though, we do seem to be able to edit objects and arrays that are created using “const”. In this tutorial, we're going to dig into the incredibly-important distinction between...
SOS
Custom Gradients in Kidz Fun Art
For a long time in Kidz Fun Art, the tablet app I built, you could draw with a rainbow brush, which...
17th Jan 2025
For a long time in Kidz Fun Art, the tablet app I built, you could draw with a rainbow brush, which is the favourite feature of many people. I noticed my eldest daughter trying to use it in such a way so to only use a subset of the colors and it was really awkward, so I added...
Cognitive...
My Own AI Server Cluster
When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original...
6th Nov 2023
When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original dolphin-13b was a flop, I had some time to go back to the drawing board. When I was ready to train the next iteration, I reconsidered whether to rent or buy the compute for the build. I...
37signals Dev
All about QA
Quality Assurance (QA) is a team of two at 37signals: Michael, who created the department 12 years...
15th Oct 2024
Quality Assurance (QA) is a team of two at 37signals: Michael, who created the department 12 years ago, and Gabriel, who joined the team in 2022. Together, we have a hand in projects across all of our products, from kickoff to release. Our goal is to help designers and...
Steve Klabnik
I'm going writeonly on Twitter for a while
3rd Sep 2014
Renegade Otter
Getting our focus back
“We was robbed…”
Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
24th Aug 2023
“We was robbed…”
Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to
improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the
nine unmonetized glances.
An...
alexwlchan
When square pixels aren’t square
When I embed videos in web pages, I specify an aspect ratio.
For example, if my video is 1920 × 1080...
5th Dec 2025
When I embed videos in web pages, I specify an aspect ratio.
For example, if my video is 1920 × 1080 pixels, I’d write:
<video style="aspect-ratio: 1920 / 1080">
If I also set a width or a height, the browser now knows exactly how much space this video will take up on the page –...
Alex Meub
The Office Bell Ringer
At my company, it’s a tradition to say “ring the bell” when we sign a new customer, release a new...
19th Feb 2020
At my company, it’s a tradition to say “ring the bell” when we sign a new customer, release a new feature or receive other positive news, big or small. When we hear the large bell ring in the center of the office, we know that something good just happened. It’s been a great way...
sancho.dev
Learnings after 4 years at ahrefs
TBD
12th Oct 2024
Hixie's Natural Log
Building a UI Framework
Over the past few months, I've been putting together some notes for future creators of UI...
25th Jul 2025
Over the past few months, I've been putting together some notes for future creators of UI frameworks, based on my experiences of the past 25-30 years. The work was originally commissioned by a customer for their use, but it seems like it might be of wider interest so I've decided...
Patrick Kayongo
A New Dog
“What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their...
6th May 2023
“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...
Irrational...
Crafting Engineering Strategy!
On November 3rd, 2023, I posted Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer
to celebrate the...
25th Oct 2025
On November 3rd, 2023, I posted Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer
to celebrate the completion of my work on my prior book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer.
Three weeks later, I posted Engineering strategy notes on November 21st, 2023,
as I started to pull together...
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...
9th Nov 2022
Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what risks to assume for 2023
Buttondown's blog
Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
5th Dec 2024
Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
Eric Bailey
Crafting a chatbot people will use: Part 1
21st Jun 2017
On Test Automation
On life as an independent contractor right now
Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in...
1st Nov 2024
Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in response to people both from the Netherlands and from abroad who have shown interest in working as an independent contractor over here.
As Google Analytics tell me only a small portion...
Epic Web Dev
The Web’s Next Transition
Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a...
4th Oct 2022
Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a new and improved architecture for building web applications.
the singularity is...
The World’s Computer
This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with...
25th Feb 2024
This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with Proof of Stake, and wish they would go back to focusing on building a reasonable world computer.
In 2024, it’s still painfully annoying to stand up a database. This is the only...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
June 12, 2009
Bulk grain banner
So we’re getting a bulk grain order together - like a pallet of bulk
grain. I’m...
12th Jun 2009
Bulk grain banner
So we’re getting a bulk grain order together - like a pallet of bulk
grain. I’m pumped. Also I designed a pretty killer banner for the
webpage with the order info. It’s good to be da king. Word.
I recovered this article from my old blog via the Internet...
Buttondown's blog
Webhooks and the programming page
Use the Buttondown API to supercharge your newsletter
6th Jan 2021
Use the Buttondown API to supercharge your newsletter
Oxide Computer...
Benefits as a Reflection of Values
“We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper,...
20th Apr 2022
“We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper, this is accurate: the health insurance Oxide offers is the best plan we can find that is offered to small businesses.
What we left unsaid until now is that the best health...
Ruud van Asseldonk
LLM text makes human interactions less fun
12th Jan 2025
Liz Denys
Marbled V60-style coffee cone, 2023
Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
2nd Dec 2023
Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
Evan Jones -...
Getting $3300 from a casino promotion
New York State legalized mobile sports gambling in January 2022. The casinos offered crazy...
22nd Jan 2022
New York State legalized mobile sports gambling in January 2022. The casinos offered crazy promotions to get people signed up. The craziest offered $3300 of free money. I did the math, and there was a low risk way to claim this money. As long as you placed 11 or more bets, you...
Liz Denys
Peppermint brownie cookies, because chocolate was made to be rich
I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich....
28th Dec 2011
I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich. Don't get me wrong - I like chocolate - but that's just it, I like chocolate, not a pinch of cocoa flavor. Chocolate chip cookies always tasted better to me with the chips on the...
Sedimental
Enterprise Software with Python
When I first published 10 Myths of Enterprise Python on
the PayPal Engineering blog, there were a...
22nd Mar 2016
When I first published 10 Myths of Enterprise Python on
the PayPal Engineering blog, there were a lot of
reactions. Some I expected:
Surprise at Python in the enterprise space.
Relief at more attestation of Python's use in the enterprise.
And, as with all the best, a few...
wingolog
preliminary notes on a nofl field-logging barrier
When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part
of the object graph that has...
3rd Oct 2024
When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part
of the object graph that has been allocated recently. To do so, you
need to keep a : a set of old-to-new edges, used as
roots when performing a minor collection. A language run-time maintains this set...
Liz Denys
On the Fearless Girl, what constitutes art, authorial intent, and the patriarchy
A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with...
19th Apr 2017
A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with Charging Bull statue in Manhattan's Financial District:
Moody Man's photo of Fearless Girl
Anthony Quintano's photo of Fearless Girl facing Charging Bull
But she wasn't...
MMapped blog
IC internals: XNet protocol
1st Jul 2022
Stephen Wolfram...
We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute!
Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two...
6th Apr 2022
Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two years. For 45 years I’ve devoted myself to building a taller and taller tower of science and technology—which along the way has delivered many outputs of which I’m quite proud. But...
Tony Finch's blog
constantly divisionless random numbers
Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s
algorithm for nearly-divisionless...
5th Mar 2025
Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s
algorithm for nearly-divisionless unbiased bounded random
numbers. The idea was to reduce code bloat by eliminating lots
of copies of the random number generator in the rarely-executed slow
paths. However a simple...
Basta’s Notes
A societal failure on all levels
A week in San Francisco
1st May 2026
MMapped blog
Designing error types in Rust
15th Nov 2022
Joel Gascoigne
Coaching and feedback within startups
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I’ve written in...
14th Jul 2013
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I’ve written in the past about the evolution of our culture at Buffer
[https://joel.is/post/37639846554/the-evolution-of-culture-at-a-startup]. One of
the things we started to do at around 6-7...
bt RSS Feed
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-11-22
You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and...
22nd Nov 2018
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-11-22
You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and implementing a grid layout is no different.
Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pick Up What They Put Down
> Translations welcome!...
1st Jan 2020
> Translations welcome! ([Português](https://meleu.github.io/artigos-traduzidos/aprenda-em-publico-hack.html))
Buttondown's blog
February updates
We started the year with lots of new updates
4th Feb 2019
We started the year with lots of new updates
Josh Collinsworth
A message from the Captain of the S.S. Layoff
Indeed, there's plenty to go around, thanks largely to all of you. But the fastest way to make the...
4th Oct 2023
Indeed, there's plenty to go around, thanks largely to all of you. But the fastest way to make the numbers better is to stop feeding and sheltering people and their families. Nothing personal.
Posts on Nikita...
Handmade Seattle 2023
A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
11th Jan 2024
A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with the following abstract:
An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.”
Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2025
The Ware for December 2025 is a Spectral Instruments Series 800 camera. I was pretty shocked at how...
31st Jan 2026
The Ware for December 2025 is a Spectral Instruments Series 800 camera. I was pretty shocked at how quickly this was guessed given the very small portion of the instrument that was shown, but, then again – that’s how it goes sometimes. Congrats to johslarsen for nailing this one;...
Sometimes It Works...
The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app
The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app
a.k.a. “The long way”
¶The 10 (ok, 15)...
16th Apr 2016
The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app
a.k.a. “The long way”
¶The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app
¶a.k.a. “The long way”
Edit: Since writing this, Laravel Valet has been launched. I haven’t tried it yet, but if you use a Mac it looks...
Josh Collinsworth
Understanding easing and cubic-bezier curves in CSS
The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS...
22nd Feb 2023
The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS cubic-bezier curves, and the art of using them to make the best web animations possible.
Sedimental
Maintainerati 2017: GitHub Design
Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an
unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular...
18th Oct 2017
Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an
unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular software, run as a
prelude to the GitHub Universe conference. After being
brought up to speed on this year's secret handshake of the software elite,
I had a great time in the...
TokyoDev
Recruitment Agencies in Japan: How To Get Them To Work For You
You may have considered using recruiters when looking for a job in Japan. This article aims to help...
7th Jun 2024
You may have considered using recruiters when looking for a job in Japan. This article aims to help you understand the structure of recruiting in Japan and assist you in your job search. I hope this will be beneficial, especially for those who want to work as engineers in...
Daniel Marino
The Money Filter
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for...
30th Nov 2025
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for next to nothing. Somewhere along the way, the perception formed that a website is a commodity—quick, cheap, and interchangeable. So when someone asks what I charge (for a very...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Long web pages benefit from having a table...
24th Aug 2024
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Long web pages benefit from having a table of contents.
Especially technical, reference documentation. As a reader you want a way to quickly navigate to a specific part of the documentation.
This article describes how I...
Marco.org
Overcast 4.1 now available
Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features.
Smart Resume is actually...
14th Mar 2018
Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features.
Smart Resume is actually two features:
It jumps back by up to a few seconds after having been paused to help remind you of the conversation.
It slightly adjusts resumes and seeks to fall in the silences...
Elad Blog
Early days of AI
Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it...
21st Aug 2023
Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it is worth thinking of this as an entirely new era and discontinuity from the past
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies
The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including...
1st Sep 2023
The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author.
Software is a lot like life — probably because it models our lives — in that it’s constantly changing.
The biggest threat to the economic value of code is...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Eating the Cloud from Outside In
AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
4th Oct 2021
AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
3rd Jul 2019
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
The Pragmatic...
What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon?
Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
1st Aug 2023
Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
ntietz.com blog -...
Units in Go and Rust show philosophical differences
Units are a key part of doing any calculation.
A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't...
5th Jun 2023
Units are a key part of doing any calculation.
A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't represent anything in particular.
If I tell you to go drive 5, you'd naturally ask "5 what?"
Software often has to deal with quantities that represent real-world things.
How we...
Buttondown's blog
Typescript-friendly label fallbacks
Here's a quick workaround that keeps Typescript happy.
2nd Mar 2023
Here's a quick workaround that keeps Typescript happy.
Computer Things
AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users
New Logic for Programmers Release
v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on...
5th Jun 2025
New Logic for Programmers Release
v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on logic-based refactoring, with new material on set types and testing refactors are correct. See the full release notes at the changelog page. Due to conference pressure v0.11 will...
Daniel Immke
Building and launching my first iPhone app
(And doing it the hard way.)
29th Jun 2019
(And doing it the hard way.)
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The...
27th Apr 2025
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The community rallied during the event, dealing a whopping 132,282,452 damage in total, but not quite enough to bring him down.
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...
14th Jan 2024
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.
Herman's blog
Things that work (for me)
A list of tools and items that JustWork (tm)
20th Jan 2026
A list of tools and items that JustWork (tm)
TokyoDev
Dealing with Pathological Anxiety in Japan
My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The...
10th Jul 2026
My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The opportunity to break away from my comfort zone, brave new horizons, and immerse myself in new cultures has probably been the greatest joy I’ve found during my time on this Earth....
Daniel Immke
What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government
Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC...
9th Sep 2019
Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC Maps, and I wrote a case study about it…
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.
Josh Comeau's blog
You Don’t Need a UI Framework
As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap....
3rd May 2022
As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap. Seems like a great way to outsource design and save a bunch of time, right? In my experience, this is an unrealistic expectation, and things don’t quite work out that way.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Three Jobs of Containers
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
1st Mar 2020
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
macwright.com
Recently
We saw this Monarch butterfly caterpillar
at the pretty unusual Naval Cemetery Landscape.
The...
1st Oct 2023
We saw this Monarch butterfly caterpillar
at the pretty unusual Naval Cemetery Landscape.
The landscape is just native pollinators and native plants
growing wild, with a wood platform above the field so you can walk around
and see the bugs and plants. It’s also built on a...
Irrational...
Make no assumptions.
I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”,
which is the idea that there...
11th Jul 2026
I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”,
which is the idea that there are many distinct layers of soil, from topsoil all the way down
to bedrock, which all combine into a soil horizon.
Translating this idea into software, the ideal codebase would...
Philip I. Thomas
Buyers define marketplaces
A marketplace business connects buyers and sellers in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Some of...
7th Jun 2020
A marketplace business connects buyers and sellers in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Some of today's biggest companies, such as Amazon, Uber, and Airbnb, are marketplaces. Yes, these companies cha...
charity.wtf
Are you an experienced software buyer? I could use some help.
If it seems like I’ve been relatively quiet lately on social media and my blog, that’s because I...
19th Sep 2025
If it seems like I’ve been relatively quiet lately on social media and my blog, that’s because I have. Liz, Austin, George and I have been busy toiling away on the second edition of “Observability Engineering” ever since April or May. I personally have been trying to spend 75-80%...
The Web Witch's Blog
The Web We Want Survey Results
14 May 2020
At the end of July 2019, we kicked off our first live Web We Want session. At the start,...
14th May 2020
14 May 2020
At the end of July 2019, we kicked off our first live Web We Want session. At the start, we only had a handful of submissions and one person willing to record their lightning talk for the session we ran at An Event Apart D.C. We've come quite a ways since then with...
somenice
Radioactive film lenses and Geiger counter Kit
Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that...
17th Mar 2021
Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In the years following that tragic event, flotsam began arriving on the Pacific West Coast. Volunteers making great effort to return...
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React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the...
19th Apr 2022
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the Backend. Includes links and initial draft at the bottom.
Boot.dev Blog
Secure Random Numbers in Node.js
Quick answer: use crypto.randomBytes() for cryptographically secure randomness in Node.js.
const {...
3rd Jul 2019
Quick answer: use crypto.randomBytes() for cryptographically secure randomness in Node.js.
const { randomBytes } = await import("node:crypto");
const buf = randomBytes(256);
console.log(`${buf.length} bytes of random data: ${buf.toString("hex")}`);
crypto.randomBytes() is a...
seated.ro
You fail to learn if you don't learn to fail
If all your time is spent watching output tokens, where do your input tokens come from?
Letting an...
12th Jul 2026
If all your time is spent watching output tokens, where do your input tokens come from?
Letting an agent rip on full auto is basically doom scrolling. Even worse if you're doom scrolling while the agent runs. We humans love frying our dopamine receptors. This feels great until...
The Changelog
Dreams of Late Summer
Here on a summer night in the grass and lilac smell Drunk on the crickets and the starry sky, Oh...
6th Sep 2025
Here on a summer night in the grass and lilac smell Drunk on the crickets and the starry sky, Oh what fine stories we could tell With this moonlight to tell them by. A summer night, and you, and paradise, So lovely and so filled with grace, Above your head, the universe has hung...
Florian Bellmann |...
Processes don't create ownership, people do
Creating a sense of ownership in the team is crucial for the success of a project. What's the right...
21st May 2024
Creating a sense of ownership in the team is crucial for the success of a project. What's the right angle?
charity.wtf
On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not
A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been...
8th Jun 2025
A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next three months. This is true. However, I did leave myself some wiggle room in my...
Boot.dev Blog
The 8 Most Popular Coding Languages of 2022
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...
Tony Finch's blog
Constructing a four-point egg
For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating
elliptical and ovoid shapes. The...
29th Jan 2024
For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating
elliptical and ovoid shapes. The Wikipedia article for Moss’s
egg has a link to a tutorial on Euclidean Eggs by Freyja
Hreinsdóttir which (amongst other things) describes how to
construct the “four point egg”. I...
bunnie's blog
IRIS (Infra-Red, in situ) Project Updates
A goal of mine is to give everyday people tangible reasons to trust their hardware. Betrusted is a...
9th Mar 2024
A goal of mine is to give everyday people tangible reasons to trust their hardware. Betrusted is a multi-year project of mine to deliver a full-stack verifiable “from logic gates to Rust crates” supply chain for security-critical applications such as password managers. At this...
Greg Brockman
My path to OpenAI
I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing...
3rd May 2016
I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and was inspired by the notion of writing code that could understand something that I, as the code’s author, did not. I started writing a chatbot — how...
The History of the...
Information is still free
Blogging is so fundamentally native to the web that twenty years of commoditization has left it...
7th Jan 2026
Blogging is so fundamentally native to the web that twenty years of commoditization has left it relatively untouched. We share information, freely.
The post Information is still free appeared first on The History of the Web.
Posts on Nikita...
2024 Reflection
Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff...
8th Dec 2024
Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but at the same time I took on so much more than I could handle.
Conferences Speaking at RustLab 2024
During late 2023 and early 2024 I applied to a bunch of conferences....
Tom MacWright
Technology optimism hour
Back in 2022, I wrote Web technology optimism hour, highlighting the things I thought were cool...
14th Aug 2026
Back in 2022, I wrote Web technology optimism hour, highlighting the things I thought were cool about the state of technology. Time flies. Let's do it again.
It's still easy to be pessimistic, but it's nice to mine your feelings for the positive ones. The elephant in the room is...
Nelson's Weblog
Back to Goodreads
I’m
back to using Goodreads but I lost my friends list, if you use
Goodreads please add
me as a...
7th Apr 2022
I’m
back to using Goodreads but I lost my friends list, if you use
Goodreads please add
me as a friend.
After
Goodreads
lost my account I was furious and of course intended to never use
it again. But to their credit, Goodreads did some extra work and
managed to get me a copy of...
HTMHell
#31 additional “assistance”
Bad code
<a href="/contact" aria-label="If you find that you need additional
assistance in...
12th Apr 2022
Bad code
<a href="/contact" aria-label="If you find that you need additional
assistance in navigating or accessing the content of this website,
please call our customer service toll free number 1-800-666-8654309" title="If
you find that you need additional assistance in...
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 1–5
16th Dec 2024
The Web Witch's Blog
Using time-blocking to increase your productivity
So many things have my attention lately that I've been trying to figure out how to handle...
16th Feb 2023
So many things have my attention lately that I've been trying to figure out how to handle everything. I saw a product manager's tweet that showed a screenshot of what is (presumably) his calendar or an example of his and every moment of his working day was blocked off.
I sort of...
A Beautiful Site
Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin
You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the...
22nd Jan 2010
You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the appropriate section of the page? Pretty slick, right? Here are a couple snippets so you can do the same thing on your own website.
Scroll to a specific element #
Here's how to...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Yearly Reading: Done and To Do
Reading fiction is not that dissimilar from watching a movie in your
brain. The ways in which...
26th Jan 2017
Reading fiction is not that dissimilar from watching a movie in your
brain. The ways in which audio-visual consumption of fiction and reading
fiction diverge is in their demand on engagement – when reading I must
learn new words, I struggle to find meaning, I use my imagination,...
Charles Petzold
The Best Decade in Music
Like many people who turned 11 years old in 1964, the first record album I bought “on my own” — in...
14th Dec 2024
Like many people who turned 11 years old in 1964, the first record album I bought “on my own” — in other words by pleading “Mom, can you get this album for me?” — was Meet the Beatles!, their first release in the United States. But so what? I have about as much inclination to...
Coding Horror
I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is...
30th Jan 2017
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I've lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I've voted in every presidential election since 1992,
The Codist
My Wikipedia Entry For Trapeze
Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia.
It sure...
24th Oct 2023
Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia.
It sure seems like a long time ago.
Liz Denys
'First' thoughts on git
I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git;...
5th Apr 2010
I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git; I've certainly already been exposed to git in a variety of ways. I'd always been told that my love of graph theory would convert me over to this different type of version control.
I...
Computer Things
Are Efficiency and Horizontal Scalability at odds?
Sorry for missing the newsletter last week! I started writing on Monday as normal, and by Wednesday...
12th Feb 2025
Sorry for missing the newsletter last week! I started writing on Monday as normal, and by Wednesday the piece (about the hierarchy of controls ) was 2000 words and not close to done. So now it'll be a blog post sometime later this month.
I also just released a new version of...
Buttondown's blog
RSS-to-email just got even more powerful.
RSS-to-email just got even more powerful.
4th Apr 2023
RSS-to-email just got even more powerful.
Maggie Appleton
Gathering Structures
How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff
20th Feb 2024
How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff
David Crawshaw
2015-12-04
www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html
4th Dec 2015
www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Subliminal git commits
Luckily, I speak Leet.
– Amita Ramanujan, Numb3rs, CBS’s IRC Drama
There’s an episode of the CBS...
29th Sep 2024
Luckily, I speak Leet.
– Amita Ramanujan, Numb3rs, CBS’s IRC Drama
There’s an episode of the CBS prime-time drama Numb3rs that plumbs
the depths of Dr. Joel Fleischman’s1 knowledge of IRC.
In one scene, Fleischman wonders, “What’s ‘leet’”?
“Leet” is writing that replaces letters...
Charles Chen
AI Startup Moats: The Difference Between Bakers and Ovens
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a...
9th Nov 2024
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a baker?
Herman's blog
Grow slowly, stay small
A more sustainable way to do business
3rd Dec 2025
A more sustainable way to do business
Copper • A blog...
The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs
One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
16th Jul 2021
One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise.
I had to get my...
wingolog
on taking advantage of ragged stops
Many years ago I read one of those Cliff Click “here’s
what I learned” articles in which he was...
6th Sep 2024
Many years ago I read one of those Cliff Click “here’s
what I learned” articles in which he was giving advice about garbage
collector design, and one of the recommendations was that at a GC pause,
running mutator threads should cooperate with the collector by identifying roots...
davidyat.es
Adventures in pixel space
30th Mar 2025
sancho.dev
Cram tests: a hidden gem of dune
29th Dec 2024
The Pragmatic...
An educational side project
What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand...
1st Jun 2023
What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand out when looking for a new job? Analysis of an Uber simulation app, built from scratch.
Tony Finch's blog
My spaghetti carbonara recipe
In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably
been eating it far too...
15th Dec 2023
In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably
been eating it far too frequently. Here’s my recipe. It works well for
1 - 3 people but gets unweildy at larger quantities.
ingredients
Rough quantities per person:
100g pasta
Spaghetti is traditional but I’ll...
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...
Making a Website Under 1kB
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-08-02
I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
2nd Aug 2022
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-08-02
I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn't as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist...
6th Aug 2021
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist previously did everything on PC, but joining PostHog…
Josh Comeau's blog
Statements Vs. Expressions
One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of...
11th Jul 2022
One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of statements, and statements have slots for expressions. In this blog post, we'll dig into how these two structures work, and see how building an intuition about this can help us...
Boot.dev Blog
Is Computer Science Really that Hard?
Yes, computer science is hard, but you already know that. You don’t want to know if computer science...
5th Apr 2023
Yes, computer science is hard, but you already know that. You don’t want to know if computer science is hard. You want to know if it’s too hard. You want to know if having to learn computer science is going to be a real obstacle in your way to achieving your goal.
Ferd.ca
My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool
From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist...
2nd Sep 2024
From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist form it has. I tell them it’s a bad idea and that I use the Erlang compiler infrastructure for it, and they agree to look elsewhere.
After launching my notes section, I had to...
beep.blog
Yes, your Godot game runs faster with static types
Static typing is one of the easiest and most rewarding disciplines you can add to your game...
14th Feb 2024
Static typing is one of the easiest and most rewarding disciplines you can add to your game development.
Josh Collinsworth
In defense of two-state theme toggles
There's a lively debate going on over whether theme toggles should have two options (light/dark) or...
3 weeks ago
There's a lively debate going on over whether theme toggles should have two options (light/dark) or three, with an added "system" option. I maintain two-state toggles are better in most cases (though not all), and that the case for a third option rests mainly on problems most...
Computer Things
How to convince engineers that formal methods is cool
Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also...
8th Oct 2024
Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also short.
Logic for Programmers v0.4
Now available! This version adds a chapter on TLA+, significantly expands the constraint solver chapter, and adds a "planner programming" section to...
elementary Blog
elementary OS 7 Available Now
It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and...
31st Jan 2023
It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and fixes based on your feedback, introduced new office productivity features, and expanded compatibility with a wide range of hardware. So far, OS 6.1 has been downloaded from our...
home automation -...
Should I Use JWTs For Authentication Tokens?
No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about....
26th May 2024
No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about. JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens, a reasonably well defined standard for authenticated tokens. Specifically they have a header with format information, a payload, and a signature or...
Some Bits: Nelson's...
NixOS generators
Build Nix images for a variety of deployment targets like Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean
1st Jun 2026
Build Nix images for a variety of deployment targets like Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean
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...
alexwlchan
Splitting a class into balanced groups
Earlier this week, my mum sent me an interesting problem.
She’s got a class of 12 students, who are...
2nd Mar 2023
Earlier this week, my mum sent me an interesting problem.
She’s got a class of 12 students, who are going to meet over 7 sessions.
In each session, they’re going to split into 3 or 4 groups, and she wants to find an even distribution of groups – each person gets to work with...
Acko.net
The Case for Use.GPU
Reinventing rendering one shader at a time
The other day I ran into a perfect example of...
13th Jun 2022
Reinventing rendering one shader at a time
The other day I ran into a perfect example of exactly why GPU programming is so foreign and weird. In this post I will explain why, because it's a microcosm of the issues that lead me to build Use.GPU, a WebGPU rendering...
Joel Gascoigne
What it's really like to grow a team when you're focused on culture-fit
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23rd Feb 2014
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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...
James Vaughan's blog
Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight
24th Sep 2023
The Pragmatic...
Apple cracking down to enforce its RTO policy
Software engineers and their managers have started to receive warnings for not working in the office...
2nd Feb 2023
Software engineers and their managers have started to receive warnings for not working in the office at least 3 days per week. I talked with engineers on how they see the policy being enforced.
Boot.dev Blog
Certificates vs Diplomas in Computer Science
When I was looking into getting my first job related to programming, I had no idea what the...
2nd Dec 2020
When I was looking into getting my first job related to programming, I had no idea what the difference between a certificate and a diploma was. I was terrified that I’d have to go back to school and spend 2-4 years getting a degree in computer science before an employer would...
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 4)
This is the last article of the series. We've built a few things with ReasonReact and now it's time...
1st Jun 2019
This is the last article of the series. We've built a few things with ReasonReact and now it's time to share my opinion about using Reason to create React applications.
Access Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here.
Though, my opinion shouldn't really matter if you're also...
Darek Kay
GitHub developer statistics
Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me...
25th May 2021
Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me to check my own impact as an employee:
1002 pull requests shipped
3062 pull requests reviewed
5 years (since migrating to GitHub Enterprise)
LOC (lines of code) is a terrible...
Paolo Amoroso's...
GravityLoops, a gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS
<![CDATA[I started working on GravityLoops, a software that simulates a collection of bodies...
31st May 2026
<![CDATA[I started working on GravityLoops, a software that simulates a collection of bodies interacting under the mutual gravity. I develop it on Medley in Interlisp and its object extension LOOPS, the Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System.
GravityLoops will show an animation...
Kagi Blog
Small Web Just Got Bigger
Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart...
12th Mar 2026
Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart of what we do at Kagi. Today, we're adding to the Small Web experience with new browser extensions,...
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...
Coding Horror
Stay Gold, America
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the...
7th Jan 2025
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.
The Codist
I Have To Fix Broken Things
Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes,...
9th May 2023
Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes, products, or UI. If it's broken, I want to fix it. If I can't, it grates on me.
After I graduated from college, my parents, a friend, and his
37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Native 1.2
We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last...
23rd Apr 2025
We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last year. The update has several key improvements, bug fixes, and more API consistency between platforms. And we’ve created all new iOS and Android demo apps to show it off!
A web-first...
A Beautiful Site
Feature detection for CSS transitions via jQuery $.support
When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may...
9th Dec 2012
When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may arise. It can be of particular use when working with the transitionend event, which won't fire in unsupportive browsers.
After finding a number of questionable solutions, I came...
Founder's blog
Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4: A Major Update for Power Users
We're excited to announce Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4, one of our biggest updates yet! This release...
23rd Oct 2025
We're excited to announce Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4, one of our biggest updates yet! This release brings powerful new features that make managing support tickets on the go faster and more efficient than ever.
Edit Tickets Without Leaving the App
One of our most requested...
bt RSS Feed
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
7th Sep 2017
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I’ve most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome.
But that all changes...
The Codist
What Is Software Quality?
Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In...
31st Mar 2025
Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In addition, how do you know when you have it?
This is the longest single blog post I have ever written.
I spent four decades writing software used by people (most of the server
tonsky.me
Statistics made simple
I have a weird relationship with statistics: on one hand, I try not to look at it too often. Maybe...
15th Dec 2025
I have a weird relationship with statistics: on one hand, I try not to look at it too often. Maybe once or twice a year. It’s because analytics is not actionable: what difference does it make if a thousand people saw my article or ten thousand?
I mean, sure, you might try to...
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
Blog System/5
ioctls from Rust
Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
13th Feb 2025
Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
Joel Gascoigne
Steady yourself, those world-changing thoughts are not productive
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13th Feb 2011
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Whilst building my latest startup, which I’m glad to say is picking up nicely,
there have been times when things have started to go a little crazy. It might be
being featured in a big blog, lots...
home automation -...
Understanding Common Table Expressions in SQL
One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or...
4th Aug 2020
One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or “WITH queries”. I’ll explain the mental model that helped me make sense of them, and how to use them to execute recursive queries. Afterwards I’ll show how to apply these techniques...
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...
Eric Bailey
Reader Mode: The Button to Beat
7th Jan 2019
Josh Collinsworth
Understanding the Difference Between Image and Vector File Types
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences...
11th Jun 2015
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences between various popular format types commonly used for graphic design applications. So I decided I’d create a resource that’s hopefully a handy reference on the matter of discerning...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Refresh Cannon
I turned my forum avatar image into an interactive projectile aiming game.
5th May 2009
I turned my forum avatar image into an interactive projectile aiming game.
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Google Your Errors
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4th Jan 2018
bt RSS Feed
Over-Nesting
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
6th Jan 2019
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...
TokyoDev
From Paperclip to Active Storage: An incremental, zero-downtime approach
I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using...
23rd Mar 2021
I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using [Paperclip](https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip) to [Active Storage](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html) for storing and processing uploaded files. The approach we took was a bit...
Fathy Boundjadj
Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG
I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork...
11th Nov 2022
I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork of Chromium to support modern web standards. This post explains most patches.
Take a picture
Chromium is built on top of Blink: an HTML engine forked from WebKit, and Skia: a 2D...
Lee A Johnson
The Caretakers
If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to...
8th Aug 2026
If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to cover, you may have missed that BINGOS just hit 247 consecutive monthly uploads to CPAN1. This is noteworthy as it surpasses DROLSKY’s record set a while back.
That’s an upload to...
MMapped blog
The off-chain reporting protocol
30th Jan 2024
Paolo Amoroso's...
Samantha Cristoforetti's Logbook
<![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space...
23rd Nov 2024
<![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space flight. On November 23, 2014 she was launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a mission to the International Space Station.
I had the privilege of helping Samantha with a public...
Eric Bailey
Sandcastles
Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions...
17th Apr 2023
Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions about how sandcastles should be built.
Vadim Kravcenko
Process Debt
I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even...
10th Dec 2023
I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even worth […]
The post Process Debt appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The Codist
How To Know When It's Time To Go
I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not...
9th Jul 2024
I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not failing ability in any way, but after a year of consideration, I realized I didn't care to do it anymore.
Everyone will eventually reach a point at
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.
5th Dec 2013
This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
Steve Klabnik
Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
16th Oct 2020
Patrick Kayongo
Iinkomo
“I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing...
30th Sep 2023
“I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing the last bit of her belongings into her bags, rushed by her anger and irritation. “I told you; it will just be for a few days. My grandfather is here for a medical procedure, and...
TokyoDev
Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT
At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a...
12th May 2023
At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a job (when I saw cover letter, these days this often refers to the body of an email or the text someone puts into a “message” field of an application form). For instance, I was able...
Sedimental
Changing the Tires on a Moving Codebase
2020 was a year of reckonings. And for all that was beyond one’s
control, as the year went on, I...
10th Mar 2021
2020 was a year of reckonings. And for all that was beyond one’s
control, as the year went on, I found myself pouring more and more
into the one thing that felt within reach: futureproofing of the large
enterprise web application I helped build,
SimpleLegal.
Now complete, this...
Boot.dev Blog
What is a DevOps Engineer's Salary?
The median DevOps engineer’s salary is $103,994 in base pay, with around $28,514 in additional pay...
1st Nov 2022
The median DevOps engineer’s salary is $103,994 in base pay, with around $28,514 in additional pay through bonuses, commissions, and profit sharing according to Glassdoor. Salary.com estimates the average is closer to $125k, while BuiltIn puts the average closer to $128k in base...
Boot.dev Blog
Creating and Remembering a Strong Passphrase
We all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique...
3rd Aug 2019
We all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique passwords. Unique passwords however present a difficult problem.
Kagi Blog
Kagi passes an independent security audit
Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant (...
29th Aug 2022
Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant ( https://www.illumant.com ) , an independent security auditor.
The Pragmatic...
Happy Leap Day!
29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how...
29th Feb 2024
29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how few assumptions we should make about dates – and why to use a date library when you can.
Darek Kay
Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts
As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion...
11th Dec 2023
As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion around subtitles, closed captions, audio descriptions and transcripts. In this post, I use interactive examples to show the difference. I also provide related success criteria from...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Exploring Interlisp-10 and TWENEX
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