Chris Nicholas
How to use Sandpack for code demos
Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every...
over a year ago
Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every JavaScript framework.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Svelte Zen Garden
reigniting the Zen Garden era with modern technology
over a year ago
reigniting the Zen Garden era with modern technology
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Racy git magic
Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement.
And I think there is one known race: the...
a year ago
Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement.
And I think there is one known race: the index mtime itself is not
race-free.
– Linus Torvalds, Re:git
bugs, 2008
A well-known race condition skulks through git’s plumbing.
And I can demo it via a git magic trick 🪄1
$ tree...
bt RSS Feed
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog
2021-09-08
With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
over a year ago
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog
2021-09-08
With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
Tony Finch's blog
Cataract surgery
Previously, I wrote about my cataract and its assessment at
Addenbrooke’s cataract clinic.
I had my...
over a year ago
Previously, I wrote about my cataract and its assessment at
Addenbrooke’s cataract clinic.
I had my cataract removed a couple of weeks ago, and so far things are
going well, though there is still some follow-up work needed.
timing
My cataract op was originally planned for the end...
ntietz.com blog
Rust's iterators optimize nicely—and contain a footgun
I saw a claim recently that in functional programming using "map/filter iterates over the list...
8 months ago
I saw a claim recently that in functional programming using "map/filter iterates over the list twice, while the foreach loop iterates only once."
The author continued that "Haskell can fuse maps together as an optimization but I don't think you safely fuse arbitrary map/filters?...
macwright.com
Remix notes
Val Town switched to Remix as a web framework a little over a year ago. Here are some...
10 months ago
Val Town switched to Remix as a web framework a little over a year ago. Here are some reflections:
The Remix versioning scheme is a joy. They gradually roll out features under feature flags, so you have lots of time to upgrade.
Compared to what seems like chaos over in...
Blog - Bitfield...
Generics in Go
Generics what now? This friendly, down-to-earth tutorial series explains
how Go’s generic...
10 months ago
Generics what now? This friendly, down-to-earth tutorial series explains
how Go’s generic functions and types work, why we need them, and where we
can use them.
Alex MacCaw
Pain
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He...
4 months ago
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He shared an excellent insight about dealing with pain that I believe everyone should hear. So here it is:
We all experience pain caused by others. Perhaps even earlier today
swyx's site RSS Feed
Organizing Developer Writing Retreats
One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS |...
over a year ago
One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS | RETREAT** in Miami!
The Pragmatic...
Will Facebook / Meta do engineering layoffs?
Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline...
over a year ago
Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline possible options and give my opinion on the likelihood of layoffs in the coming months.
Posts on Nikita...
Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my...
a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
swyx's site RSS Feed
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.
over a year ago
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
ntietz.com blog
Even bad estimates are valuable if you use them right
Estimating software projects is hard, if not impossible. This seems likely to be fundamental to the...
over a year ago
Estimating software projects is hard, if not impossible. This seems likely to be fundamental to the work, because we're inventing new things and invention doesn't happen on a fixed schedule. And yet, many teams still estimate how long their tasks will take to finish. Why should...
The Changelog
Consider Security First
I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly...
a year ago
I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly can, including my Raspberry Pi devices, to Debian. I will write about that later. But for now, I wanted to comment on something I think is often overlooked and misunderstood by...
Neil Panchal
Bare Metal vs. Virtualization Performance
I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows:
Neil's Lab Server Specifications
CPU...
over a year ago
I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows:
Neil's Lab Server Specifications
CPU Model
Intel® Xeon® Gold 6326, 16 Cores (32 Threads), 2.90 GHz (Base), 3.50 GHz (Turbo)
CPU Cooler
Noctua NH-U12S DX-4189
Motherboard
Supermicro...
Miguel Carranza
Evolution of my role as a founder CTO
There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most...
over a year ago
There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most of it focused on the CEO role. The generic advice on leadership also applies to other non-CEO roles, but I could not find a lot of content targeted to technical founders. In fact,...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, March 2023
The Ware for March 2023 is shown below: Thank again to spida for submitting this ware. I was...
a year ago
The Ware for March 2023 is shown below: Thank again to spida for submitting this ware. I was certainly stumped when I first saw it! Again, some very big “clues” are not shown, which I will add to the post later if it turns out to be too difficult to guess.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Firebase Analytics in 30 Seconds
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over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Single Line Comments in CSS
Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found...
a year ago
Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found himself missing some of the ergonomics from Sass.
Having mostly abandoned Sass on personal projects, I was curious what he felt was missing.
He mentioned nesting media queries,...
Elad Blog
Substack: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 2)
This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products...
over a year ago
This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products that are most likely to have had society-level impact in 5 years. My first two posts are on Clubhouse and Substack [1]. Both are social network and media platforms of different...
The Changelog
Using git-annex for Data Archiving
In my recent post about data archiving to removable media, I laid out the difference between backing...
a year ago
In my recent post about data archiving to removable media, I laid out the difference between backing up and archiving, and also said I’d evaluate git-annex and dar. This post evaluates git-annex. The next will look at dar, and then I’ll make a comparison post. What is git-annex?...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Developer's Guide to Tech Strategy
This is a _very_ high level overview of tech strategy; that is, the _business of software_ rather...
over a year ago
This is a _very_ high level overview of tech strategy; that is, the _business of software_ rather than the art and science of creating software itself.
macwright.com
Roll
I developed an old roll of film and the photos are pretty decent!
My Olympus XA-2 is
my default...
a year ago
I developed an old roll of film and the photos are pretty decent!
My Olympus XA-2 is
my default walking-around camera. I love it, but its age is showing
and I’m envious of the crisp photos that people get out of later-era
SLR film cameras. Thinking about getting a lightweight...
swyx's site RSS Feed
September 11th from Singapore
just some memories 20 years after 9/11.
over a year ago
just some memories 20 years after 9/11.
PostHog's RSS Feed
A simple guide to personal data and PII
Engineers and product managers need to be vigilant when collecting user data. Punitive GDPR fines...
over a year ago
Engineers and product managers need to be vigilant when collecting user data. Punitive GDPR fines can run to €20 million or 4% of a company's global…
macwright.com
React is old
My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015.
For the web...
9 months ago
My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015.
For the web stack, we considered a few other options - we had used d3 to build iD, which worked out great but we were practically the only people in the internet using d3 to build HTML UIs - I...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning
My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving...
over a year ago
My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider mandatory:
Eric Bailey
a11y-syntax-highlighting has been updated
I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s...
4 months ago
I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s solarized-prism-theme for PrismJS.
To not bury the lede, the new update:
Supports Forced Colors mode,
Is encapsulated in a Cascade Layer,
Uses Custom Properties,
Groups its selectors using the...
bt RSS Feed
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
over a year ago
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
Tinloof - Blog
The SEO scam: $62,000 later
Context
Like many businesses operating online, we at Tinloof decided to explore SEO to attract more...
a year ago
Context
Like many businesses operating online, we at Tinloof decided to explore SEO to attract more leads.
Seeing the numerous SEO gurus on LinkedIn and Twitter, one might think it's worth a shot to try this approach, hoping to strike gold when search engines place your website...
Words and Buttons...
Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics?
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat...
over a year ago
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat limited scope, this may be indeed an economical alternative to splines.
ntietz.com blog
Making it fast shouldn't be the last step
There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make...
a year ago
There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make it fast."1
This is a catchy aphorism, and it is often taken as a rule.
But in its short form, it misses some crucial nuance.
Let's unpack it to see what's missing, then how to do...
Confessions of a...
Video: Architecture of Groq's LPU & Why is it so Fast?
This last Sunday we did a live session on Groq’s LPU and after that many people reached out to me...
10 months ago
This last Sunday we did a live session on Groq’s LPU and after that many people reached out to me for the recording of the session.
Maggie Appleton
Assumed Audiences
Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
over a year ago
Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
blag
Recurse Center Day 4: B Tree fill factor
Q: How do I have a same B Tree fill factor across all nodes?
over a year ago
Q: How do I have a same B Tree fill factor across all nodes?
PostHog's RSS Feed
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...
a year ago
PostHog started as a single product company. We just sold product analytics with a bunch of large extra features thrown in – session replay, feature…
A Beautiful Site
Business cards
VistaPrint delivered 1,000 “A Beautiful Site” business cards the other day, and I couldn't resist...
over a year ago
VistaPrint delivered 1,000 “A Beautiful Site” business cards the other day, and I couldn't resist playing with them.
I decided to go conservative with the design, relying a bit on curiosity to draw attention to the business. Nevertheless, I am pleased with the way they turned...
alexwlchan
My (tiny) contribution to Rust 1.64
A couple of months ago, I was writing some Rust, and the compiler spat out an error:
error[E0412]:...
over a year ago
A couple of months ago, I was writing some Rust, and the compiler spat out an error:
error[E0412]: cannot find type `Boolean` in this scope
--> src/fs_helpers.rs:29:33
|
29 | pub fn is_ds_store(p: &Path) -> Boolean
| ^^^^^^^ not found in...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why JavaScript Tooling Sucks
JavaScript Tooling is just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.
over a year ago
JavaScript Tooling is just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Instance-based Learning and K-Nearest Neighbors
Regression isn't the only way. What if we were far, far... lazier about it?
over a year ago
Regression isn't the only way. What if we were far, far... lazier about it?
markround.com
Apollo Vampire V1200 Review
After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2...
over a year ago
After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2 accelerator! Since then, my Amiga has had a new lease of life so I thought I’d write an update covering all the stuff I would have wanted to know while I was waiting for the package to...
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Aren't Cheap
Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they...
over a year ago
Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they tend to be much more involved. In a post by Nathan Curtis entitled And you thought buttons were easy?, he demonstrates how costs can quickly skyrocket to $1,000,000 when one arm of...
Eric Bailey
Listing posts in Eleventy when you publish offsite
I write a lot, and a lot of my writing is published on other sites. One of the functions of my site...
over a year ago
I write a lot, and a lot of my writing is published on other sites. One of the functions of my site is to serve as an archive, so I can keep track of what I’ve done where.
Eleventy is good at a lot of things, and one of those things is getting a blog up and running quickly and...
alexwlchan
Making the fish shell more forgetful
For quite a few years, I’ve been using fish (https://fishshell.com/) as my shell.
One of the cool...
a year ago
For quite a few years, I’ve been using fish (https://fishshell.com/) as my shell.
One of the cool things it does is autosuggestions from my shell history.
As I’m typing, it suggests (in light grey) a command I’ve run before.
I can press the right arrow to accept the suggestion,...
HTMHell
Landmarks and where to put them
Heading elements (h1 through to h6) are used to give structure to the content of your page. They're...
over a year ago
Heading elements (h1 through to h6) are used to give structure to the content of your page. They're important for SEO, make your pages more readable and, of course, also help people that use assistive technologies navigate through your page. Somewhat less known are landmark...
Copper • A blog...
Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store?
Let’s set the stage first. So, it’s Tuesday night and I’m Command Tab-ing my way through 10...
over a year ago
Let’s set the stage first. So, it’s Tuesday night and I’m Command Tab-ing my way through 10 different apps, some with 3-4 windows, while trying to patch bugs in
Lunar faster than the users can submit the reports. I’m definitely failing.
I feel my brain pulsing and my ring...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Modern CSS Reset
I have a set of baseline CSS styles that come with me from project to project. In the past, I'd use...
over a year ago
I have a set of baseline CSS styles that come with me from project to project. In the past, I'd use a typical CSS reset, but times have changed, and I believe I have a better set of global styles!
Eric Bailey
A year at GitHub
I took a job at GitHub a year ago today.
On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its...
a year ago
I took a job at GitHub a year ago today.
On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its design system. The hope here is that the work done there eventually makes its way to the site itself.
It still feels surreal to have this job. I still vividly remember learning that...
Neil Panchal
Coming soon
This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things...
8 months ago
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
Alex Meub
Dealing with Dropbox Link Overages
Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the...
over a year ago
Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the fact that I can give public links to others as an easy way to send large files.
Recently though, a few links of mine were getting pretty popular and I received the following very...
alexwlchan
“Fixing” the rules of division
Yesterday evening, Kate posted this tweet:
Kate
@thingskatedid
i don't...
over a year ago
Yesterday evening, Kate posted this tweet:
Kate
@thingskatedid
i don't *care* how maths works, half of zero should be 0.5
6:33 PM - 22 Sep 2022
This tweet promptly crawled inside my brain and sat there until I figured out how to make it work.
I...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Following Links
I loved this post from Chris Enns (via Robb Knight) where he outlines the rabbit hole of links he...
10 months ago
I loved this post from Chris Enns (via Robb Knight) where he outlines the rabbit hole of links he ventured down in writing that post.
It felt fun and familiar, as that’s how my own browsing goes, e.g.
“I saw X and I clicked it. Then I saw Y, so I clicked that. But then I went...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Logical Properties and Ease
I’ll admit, I’m late to the logical properties party.
The purist in me loves the idea because it...
a year ago
I’ll admit, I’m late to the logical properties party.
The purist in me loves the idea because it makes CSS more internally consistent with its design to be a language-agnostic framework for uni-directional layout. Chris gets at this in his recent post, “Why aren’t logical...
macwright.com
Homeownership
Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house
and they can’t, or...
a year ago
Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house
and they can’t, or they’ve bought a house. The desire to own ones own home is
almost universal in the people I know in the US. It’s even stronger for folks
who live outside of major cities. And people...
Eric Bailey
Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need
over a year ago
somenice
Cloth Simulation with Procedural Plaid
This was fun, because how can you have too much plaid?Thanks to Ryan King Art on Youtube for the...
a year ago
This was fun, because how can you have too much plaid?Thanks to Ryan King Art on Youtube for the Blender tutorial series on material nodes. His tutorials are great and I appreciate the effort in his editing. Support him if you can. I often joke that I’ve learned Blender 3D every...
Ognjen Regoje •...
The boy who cried risk
On a recent project, I worked with a principal engineer. He’s a very prolific contributor and...
a year ago
On a recent project, I worked with a principal engineer. He’s a very prolific contributor and involved in several projects. Most of his contributions are related to risk management.
That made me think about the other senior-most engineers and what they work on, leading me to...
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink
2024-07-24
A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a...
6 months ago
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink
2024-07-24
A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a standard pi-hole server with eero WiFi but since that time I have swapped out my “cell tower” internet for Starlink. The speed improvement has been incredible and there is no looking...
Hixie's Natural Log
When complaints are a good sign
When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so...
3 months ago
When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so explicitly, but even if you don't, you're still implicitly doing so based on your design choices.
These choices are trade-offs. If you want to write a quiet song, it won't be loud....
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, May 2023
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I...
a year ago
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I suspect this one may be guessed quite quickly, but I’ll leave one hint anyways: there is more than one board in this assembly.
Joel Gascoigne
The evening walk
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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A few weeks ago...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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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
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
Our third Ink & Switch Unconference, at the beautifully retro Preserve in Los Angeles
2 months ago
Our third Ink & Switch Unconference, at the beautifully retro Preserve in Los Angeles
The Changelog
Airgapped / Asynchronous Backups with ZFS over NNCP
In my previous articles in the series on asynchronous communication with the modern NNCP tool, I...
over a year ago
In my previous articles in the series on asynchronous communication with the modern NNCP tool, I talked about its use for asynchronous, potentially airgapped, backups. The first article, How & Why To Use Airgapped Backups laid out the foundations for this. Now let’s dig into the...
HTMHell
#13 link or label
Bad code
<input type="checkbox" id="accept" required>
<label for="accept">
<a href="/legal"> I...
over a year ago
Bad code
<input type="checkbox" id="accept" required>
<label for="accept">
<a href="/legal"> I accept the confidentiality policy and data… </a>
</label>
Issues and how to fix them
It’s bad practice to nest elements with activation behavior (e.g. click).
Users don’t expect a new...
Eric Bailey
Use of the design system should factor into promotion packets
That’s it, that’s the post.
a year ago
That’s it, that’s the post.
TokyoDev
Helping Japanese companies build global engineering teams
TokyoDev has launched a new Japanese language blog focused on aiding Japanese companies in building...
4 months ago
TokyoDev has launched a new Japanese language blog focused on aiding Japanese companies in building English-speaking engineering teams. This is our first step towards our goal of helping these companies internationalize their engineering departments, which will allow them to take...
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is SaaS without the aaS
It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve...
11 months ago
It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve already sold more than quarter of a million dollars worth of this beautifully simple installable chat system. People are using it to replace existing systems costing tens of thousands...
Irrational...
2022 in review.
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual...
over a year ago
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual reflection where my first thoughts are happy rather than bleak.
The truth is that there is a lot of bleak out there right now–just look at the layoffs and the funding environment–but...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on RSI for Developers
I'm starting to feel some RSI in my left hand. It's a matter of time. I decided to collect some...
over a year ago
I'm starting to feel some RSI in my left hand. It's a matter of time. I decided to collect some information about it to make improvements now rather than later.
TokyoDev
From Mongolia to Japan as a Software Engineer
I’d love to share my journey of almost six years of experience as a Mongolian software engineer in...
7 months ago
I’d love to share my journey of almost six years of experience as a Mongolian software engineer in Tokyo. My path to securing a job in Japan was somewhat unconventional in that I applied for jobs in Japan through career fairs at my graduate school, the Indian Institute of...
Nelson's Weblog
Overhead shower drips
Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you
when you’re not using it? It...
a year ago
Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you
when you’re not using it? It may be water trapped in the pipes and a
plunger will temporarily fix it.
We have a fancy shower with an overhead rain shower and a ordinary
wall sprayer both controlled by the...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
It’s the future — you can stop using JPEGs
For the past several months, after leaving Amazon I have been hard at work building a software...
over a year ago
For the past several months, after leaving Amazon I have been hard at work building a software product. I anticipate probably another 1-…
Tinloof - Blog
How to build cron jobs with Netlify functions
We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's...
over a year ago
We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's portfolio companies into their Jobs page.
Tinloof - Blog
How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 2)
This series of articles is made out of two parts:
In the first part, we built the stopwatch's user...
over a year ago
This series of articles is made out of two parts:
In the first part, we built the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS.
In this second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
General Robots
Nailing the Demo
So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9. If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to...
a year ago
So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9. If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to do a demo for an Important Person. This could be a VC, a potential customer, an executive or a journalist
Florian Bellmann |...
Every product needs an architecture vision
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture...
11 months ago
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture vision can prevent that from happening.
David Heinemeier...
DEI is done (minus the mop up)
In November of 2022, I wrote about the waning days of DEI's dominance, and enumerated four factors...
8 months ago
In November of 2022, I wrote about the waning days of DEI's dominance, and enumerated four factors that I saw as primary drivers of this decline. Those waning days have now been brought to a close, and DEI, as an obsessive, ideological preoccupation of the corporate world, is...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 10: Thankful for Family, Missing my Family
As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold.
I wasn't sure what I'd...
over a year ago
As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold.
I wasn't sure what I'd write this week for the RC week 10 recap, since it's a short week.
This week I didn't get a whole lot of coding done, so it's time for the trope:
the Thanksgiving post.
Of course,...
Tony Finch's blog
tolower() with AVX-512
A couple of years ago I wrote about tolower() in bulk at speed using
SWAR tricks. A couple of days...
5 months ago
A couple of years ago I wrote about tolower() in bulk at speed using
SWAR tricks. A couple of days ago I was interested by Olivier
Giniaux’s article about unsafe read beyond of death, an
optimization for handling small strings with SIMD instructions, for a
fast hash function...
ntietz.com blog
I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009.
In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way.
Most...
a year ago
In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way.
Most of my life, I'd intended to become a math professional of some sort: a math teacher, when that was all I saw math for; an actuary, when I started to learn more; and then a...
Max Countryman
Mindset for New Engineering Managers
Coming to engineering management as a discipline requires a completely fresh set of skills. A common...
a year ago
Coming to engineering management as a discipline requires a completely fresh set of skills. A common mistake is to assume that our previous expertise will make this transition seamless. In reality, it's important to recognize the need to shift mindsets entirely.
Tinloof - Blog
Why we prefer Sanity over Contentful
In this article, we'll explain 5 reasons why we prefer Sanity over Contentful Headless CMS.
over a year ago
In this article, we'll explain 5 reasons why we prefer Sanity over Contentful Headless CMS.
Liz Denys
The Patriarchy as an otherworldly patron
As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I...
over a year ago
As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I feel that such figments of the imagination are well suited for becoming otherworldly patrons for Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks, so we created a variant otherworldly patron for the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The most popular PostHog alternatives, compared
As an all-in-one platform, PostHog replaces a lot of legacy tools. PostHog is great if you: Need...
a year ago
As an all-in-one platform, PostHog replaces a lot of legacy tools. PostHog is great if you: Need quantitative and qualitative insights into user…
Ink & Switch
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
over a year ago
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
Eric Bailey
Tribble
Tribble, Tribs, Tribby P, little guy, little dude, bud, buddy.
You’re my best friend’s cat, but I’m...
over a year ago
Tribble, Tribs, Tribby P, little guy, little dude, bud, buddy.
You’re my best friend’s cat, but I’m the next-of-kin on the pet-sitter paperwork. You’re not mine, but I’m definitely a part of you.
You’ve been a presence and a comfort through most of my adult life. I’d like to...
Darek Kay
Style your RSS feed
RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it's still a thriving protocol, especially among tech...
a year ago
RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it's still a thriving protocol, especially among tech users. However, many people do not know what RSS feeds are or how to use them. Most browsers render RSS as raw XML files, which doesn't help users understand what it's all about:
In...
Vadim Kravcenko
🔥 Do things, tell people
🤖 When I was younger, I liked to build things (still do), and I was very often surprised that...
over a year ago
🤖 When I was younger, I liked to build things (still do), and I was very often surprised that people […]
The post 🔥 Do things, tell people appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Cognitive...
Vicuna
A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna.
Now I've been playing with a lot of models...
a year ago
A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna.
Now I've been playing with a lot of models like this, such as Alpaca and GPT4All. And I also fine-tuned my own.
But Vicuna is a lot better. Here is a conversation I had with it.
User: Write a limerick about language...
somenice
Autumnal equinox 2023
Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using...
a year ago
Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using Trapcode Particular.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Quick Tip: docx is a zip Archive
Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached...
over a year ago
Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached media. Super useful, everyone should know it!
When I tell my colleagues, friends, or students about it, they don't take me seriously the first time. So, here we go again. If you have...
Seldo.com
On AI, ML, LLMs and the future of software
a year ago
Liz Denys
The crispiest chocolate chip cookies
Remember how I was craving chocolate chip cookies not too long ago? Well, the ricotta chocolate...
over a year ago
Remember how I was craving chocolate chip cookies not too long ago? Well, the ricotta chocolate shavings cookies didn't satisfy that craving for long - probably because I was craving deep dark chocolate in a rich buttery dough.
Normally, I make chewy chocolate chip cookies that...
Josh Comeau's blog
Let's Bring Spacer GIFs Back!
The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations,...
over a year ago
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.
The Pragmatic...
Is Critical Thinking the Most Important Skill for Knowledge Workers?
Critical thinking will only become more important as AI tools spread more. How can you get better at...
a year ago
Critical thinking will only become more important as AI tools spread more. How can you get better at this, and why should you reject jargon and "thought leaders?"
Eric Bailey
Zombie Slack channels
I’ve witnessed this phenomenon across enough corporate Slack workspaces that I think I can speak to...
a year ago
I’ve witnessed this phenomenon across enough corporate Slack workspaces that I think I can speak to it with confidence.
What is a zombie Slack channel?
If you use Slack (or Teams, or some other similar app) at work I’m sure you’ve encountered zombie channels before.
Zombie Slack...
Making software...
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
2020-06-22
There are a great deal of options available on the web and...
over a year ago
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
2020-06-22
There are a great deal of options available on the web and built into most operating systems when you need to create presentation / keynote slides. You could use native software like LibremOffice Impress, Powerpoint, Apple's Keynote, etc....
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, November 2023
The Ware for November 2023 is shown below. Thanks to “zw” for mailing me this device to take apart...
a year ago
The Ware for November 2023 is shown below. Thanks to “zw” for mailing me this device to take apart and share!
alexwlchan
What comes after AWS?
James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday:
Grumble Bundle
@monkchips
...
8 months ago
James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday:
Grumble Bundle
@monkchips
what are the core primitives developers need for building and deploying modern applications? what platform services does the underlying infrastructure need to...
Elad Blog
Crypto Twitter
With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter...
over a year ago
With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter should be doing, that it has never done. There are lots of obvious features (edit tweets, longer form content, better user controls, better onboarding, better spam filtering,...
bt RSS Feed
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
2021-12-03
With the recent domain switch that took place on...
over a year ago
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
2021-12-03
With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like “URL forwarding” through your domain provider could work,...
The Pragmatic...
The Big Tech Hiring Slowdown Is Here and it will Hurt
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon have all dramatically slowed or frozen hiring. How will this...
over a year ago
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon have all dramatically slowed or frozen hiring. How will this impact the rest of the tech industry?
Code Of Honor
Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists
In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers...
over a year ago
In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers — even good ones — seem to get terribly wrong! Then I’m going to share techniques (with source code) to make your game engine code simpler, faster, more memory efficient and more...
orlp.net - Blog...
Magical Fibonacci Formulae
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci
sequence, without loops,
recursion or floating...
a year ago
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci
sequence, without loops,
recursion or floating point arithmetic:
f=lambda n:(b:=2<<n)**n*b//(b*b-b-1)%b
It really does:
>>> [f(n) for n in range(10)]
[0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34]
How does it work? As a teaser, look at...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How Spotify (and PostHog) build successful features
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers...
a year ago
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products, and…
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
2019-10-06
Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on...
over a year ago
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
2019-10-06
Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don’t style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
alexwlchan
Not all blog posts are created equal
For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block.
I was struggling to write,...
3 weeks ago
For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block.
I was struggling to write, even when I had good ideas; if I wrote something I liked, I was often reluctant to publish it; if somebody asked to read the site, I’d wince before giving them the link.
Something...
Joel Gascoigne
Does location really matter for your startup?
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Some of you may...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Some of you may know that I just left everything behind in the UK and together
with my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] arrived in San Francisco to base
ourselves and Buffer...
Oxide Computer...
Advancing Cloud and HPC Convergence with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Work Together to Advance Cloud and...
2 months ago
Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Work Together to Advance Cloud and HPC Convergence
Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced a plan to bring on-premises cloud computing capabilities to the Livermore...
Blog - Bitfield...
Generic types in Go
Golang generics open up a lot of exciting new possibilities for us as
programmers. In this...
2 months ago
Golang generics open up a lot of exciting new possibilities for us as
programmers. In this tutorial, we’ll look at ways we can use type
parameters to define customised generic types.
TokyoDev
All About Working Visas for Hiring Foreigners Full-time in Japan
*This article is a translation of [a Japanese...
a year ago
*This article is a translation of [a Japanese article](https://michi.sociarise.co.jp/recruiting-tips/working-visas/) by Takumi Nakamura, the CEO of [Sociarise](https://sociarise.co.jp), a consultancy for hiring global talents.*
When considering hiring foreign nationals, their...
David Heinemeier...
Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no...
5 months ago
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its...
Liz Denys
A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Side Street Blanket
Joelle Hoverson designed another blanket that follows a similar construction as the Library Blanket,...
over a year ago
Joelle Hoverson designed another blanket that follows a similar construction as the Library Blanket, so I figured I'd make another color picking tool for the new Side Street Blanket. The varied blocks in this blanket are also made by holding different pairs of yarns together, so...
A Beautiful Site
Code can change
As a web developer, your code is often visible to anyone who wants to review it. If you're like me,...
over a year ago
As a web developer, your code is often visible to anyone who wants to review it. If you're like me, you might get stressed out about the thought of people looking at your work and critiquing or criticizing your app's design.
Take a deep breath, recenter, and remember that code...
Tony Finch's blog
Where does "where does my computer get the time from?" come from?
I am pleased that so many people enjoyed
my talk about time at RIPE86.
I thought I would write a few...
a year ago
I am pleased that so many people enjoyed
my talk about time at RIPE86.
I thought I would write a few notes on some of the things I left out.
genesis
Essen & Markowitz
Galileo
zones
BIH
irony
genesis
There were a couple of things that I thought would make a fun talk:
Just how many...
Steve Klabnik
Run Rails with custom patches
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Tech salaries probably aren't dropping from remote work
Not even a year ago, most software companies and software engineers were some form of remote work...
over a year ago
Not even a year ago, most software companies and software engineers were some form of remote work skeptical. Remote work existed (I've been working remote for most of my admittedly short career!) but it was not widespread. When I talked to recruiters at big tech companies they...
bunnie's blog
Sidebar on Meta-Knowledge
IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible...
10 months ago
IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible reason to trust their hardware. Above: example of IRIS imaging a chip mounted on a circuit board. When I set out to research this technique, there were many unknowns, and many skills...
Eric Bailey
Crafting a chatbot people will use: Part 1
over a year ago
Patrick Kayongo
River Flows
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and...
a year ago
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and needed time out after yet another fight with his parents. I really don’t belong here. They’ll never understand me. They’re so toxic and oppressive. I don’t know how much longer I can...
bt RSS Feed
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
2020-06-14
I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air...
over a year ago
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
2020-06-14
I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air with Linux Mint. It’s a distro I’ve used a few times in the past, but never set it as one of my main daily drivers until now.
Setting up all my go-to applications (Sublime, LocalWP,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
A non-coders thoughts on ‘Everybody Codes’ - Part Two
One of PostHog’s values is that everybody codes. That doesn’t mean everyone needs to be a developer,...
over a year ago
One of PostHog’s values is that everybody codes. That doesn’t mean everyone needs to be a developer, but we do encourage everyone to practice the…
Jibran’s Perspective
I have not failed enough
I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast...
a year ago
I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast and started to think about how often I had failed in the past few years. The first answer was - not too much. I couldn’t think of too many instances of where I had “failed”.
This was...
Vadim Kravcenko
Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior
These are mostly my thoughts about what I was expecting as a junior and how I perceived senior...
11 months ago
These are mostly my thoughts about what I was expecting as a junior and how I perceived senior developers. To […]
The post Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The Changelog
When You Think You’re At the End, You’re At the Beginning
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. –...
over a year ago
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. – Fred Rogers This is sunrise over Kansas. Or maybe sunset. I’m not going to tell you this time, because it doesn’t matter all that much. I love that it (if you don’t over-analyze it)...
Epic Web Dev
Git Fundamentals (tutorial)
10 months ago
A Smart Bear
The three kinds of leverage that anchor effective strategies
Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best...
a year ago
Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best when durable. Here's how to create leverage.
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Six
Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a...
a year ago
Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a time in my life that was more demanding and emotionally draining. Those early years were filled with hard work, but we were also full of energy, ambition to build, and the sense...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Power of Lampshading
How to turn Ignorance into Power
over a year ago
How to turn Ignorance into Power
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech
In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any...
a year ago
In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any longer, womp womp) I've done a little bit of a lot…
Josh Comeau's blog
My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow
If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know...
over a year ago
If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know it's tricky business! In this blog post, I share the approach I took to build responsive, client-friendly emails without a single
tag.
alexwlchan
Looking at images in a spreadsheet
I’ve had a couple of projects recently where I needed to work with a list that involved images.
For...
yesterday
I’ve had a couple of projects recently where I needed to work with a list that involved images.
For example, choosing a series of photos to print, or making an inventory of Lego parts.
I could write a simple text list, but it’s really helpful to be able to see the images as part...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2023
The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware!...
a year ago
The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware! Unfortunately this image does have an exact hit on Google images, as it is already in Cedric’s social media feed — but I think the ware itself is functionally interesting, yet simple...
Maggie Appleton
What the Fork is Babel?
Illustrated notes on how Babel works
over a year ago
Illustrated notes on how Babel works
Joel Gascoigne
Buffer's investor update on COVID-19 impact and approach
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Ever since the world got turned upside down by...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Ever since the world got turned upside down by COVID-19, it’s been “business as unusual” for everyone – Buffer included.
I sent this update out to Buffer’s investors one week ago. I hesitated on whether
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...
a year ago
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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making o(m)g:image Part I: Design Iterations
I blogged about my recent project omgimg.jim-nielsen.com and I figured I’d write more details about...
a month ago
I blogged about my recent project omgimg.jim-nielsen.com and I figured I’d write more details about my process behind making it.
When the idea first struck, I jumped into Figma and started working out the idea. I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted: a quiz-like website that...
Julia Evans
Some blogging myths
A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides)
about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was...
a year ago
A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides)
about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was chatting with a friend
about blogging the other day and it made me want to write up that talk as a
blog post.
here are the myths:
myth: you need to be original
myth: you need to...
Making software...
Hosting with Codeberg Pages
Hosting with Codeberg Pages
2022-07-29
I recently switched the pblog project repo over from...
over a year ago
Hosting with Codeberg Pages
2022-07-29
I recently switched the pblog project repo over from Sourcehut to Codeberg (mostly for UX reasons) and it got me looking into Codeberg Pages. It seemed like a cleaner approach to host my personal blog on the same platform I planned to also...
HTMHell
#30 Bullet “list”
Bad code
<p>
• HTML
<br>
• CSS
<br>
• JavaScript
</p>
Issues and how to fix them
Use <p>...
over a year ago
Bad code
<p>
• HTML
<br>
• CSS
<br>
• JavaScript
</p>
Issues and how to fix them
Use <p> for paragraphs, not lists. The standard way for creating basic lists is <ul> (when the order doesn't matter) or <ol> (when the order matters), and <li> for each item.
The “list”...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we raised $3M for an open source project
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have...
over a year ago
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…
Steve Klabnik
Rust's documentation is about to drastically improve
over a year ago
Irrational...
2023 in review.
Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
This was an eventful year. My son went to...
a year ago
Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
This was an eventful year. My son went to preschool,
I joined Carta, left Calm, and wrote my third book.
It was also a logistically intensive year, with our toddler heading to preschool,
more work travel, and a bunch of other little...
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
2021-01-19
It’s no secret that I’m passionate about open...
over a year ago
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
2021-01-19
It’s no secret that I’m passionate about open source software, but I’m also extremely adamant about protecting the privacy of all users across the web. So when I decided to implement analytics on my own personal website, I ended...
ntietz.com blog
You should be using hackdays to supercharge your roadmap
Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not...
a year ago
Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not universal.
They should be universal, though.
Hackdays help you get great new ideas that are both impactful and feasible.
They're probably the best thing you can do to improve your product and...
macwright.com
Thoughts on storing stuff in databases by ()
User preferences should be columns in the users table. Don’t get clever with a json column or...
a year ago
User preferences should be columns in the users table. Don’t get clever with a json column or hstore. When you introduce new preferences, the power of types and default values is worth the headache of managing columns.
Emails should probably be citext, case-insensitive text. But...
Irrational...
How to capitalize engineering costs.
There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one...
over a year ago
There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one that’s both easy to forget and surprisingly important is your first meeting with the finance team. There’s a lot to learn from the finance team, particularly drilling into your profit...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Learn In Private
Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn...
over a year ago
Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn In Public. The majority of the time you are still learning in private. Here are some thoughts on how to do it well.
the singularity is...
A Person of Compute
We will define one person of compute as 20 PFLOPS (64 A100s, or a single dense 42U A100 rack). We...
a year ago
We will define one person of compute as 20 PFLOPS (64 A100s, or a single dense 42U A100 rack). We are in the era of the 1 rack person, consuming about 30kW to provide those 20 PFLOPS.
LLaMA was trained on a cluster of 2048 A100s, with ~312 TFLOPS each. 2048 is currently the...
Eric Bailey
thoughtbot.com, dark mode, and other user preferences
thoughtbot.com and Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots, thoughtbot’s blog.
Dark mode is...
over a year ago
thoughtbot.com and Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots, thoughtbot’s blog.
Dark mode is all the rage in web design right now. It’s a toggle in your operating system settings that allows you to update your operating system from traditional lighter colors to a darker...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 9 best mobile app A/B testing tools
A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it...
a year ago
A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it comes to mobile apps, there are many different A/B…
Josh Comeau's blog
Styling Ordered Lists with CSS Counters
Styling an ordered list can be surprisingly tricky; there's no way to get at that bullet! In this...
over a year ago
Styling an ordered list can be surprisingly tricky; there's no way to get at that bullet! In this tutorial, we'll see a handy trick using CSS counters that lets us style ordered lists without breaking proper semantics.
Confused bit
Birth of a new blog
What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or...
over a year ago
What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or dynamic typing? The answer to all these questions and more on “Confused bit”.
This blog is a place to host and share my thoughts on software, crafting, and my experience with various...
Tinker, Tamper,...
Showing SQL Queries with Pytest and Django
I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s...
over a year ago
I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s sometimes useful to see the actual SQL queries that Django emitted, which is surprisingly hard. I assumed that that would be such an obvious and common need, that a simple switch...
Eric Bailey
My Mastodon strategy
I know, I know. Yet another “how to Mastodon” post.
That said, I feel like I’ve finally gotten at...
a year ago
I know, I know. Yet another “how to Mastodon” post.
That said, I feel like I’ve finally gotten at least a semblance of traction on making my Mastodon feed worthwhile. Reader, it was not easy.
I should also point out that I was incredibly invested in Twitter for staying on top of...
Liz Denys
Cancel Like Everything
Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a...
over a year ago
Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a new poster inspired by For Like Ever and the current need for social distance:
The texture in the clouds below the text is made up of no symbols and small x's:
I've made an A4...
ntietz.com blog
Impact of remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain
One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this...
a year ago
One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this morning:
Ooh, a high severity remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain?
On the one hand, I'm not entirely shocked that a framework that includes the ability to run LLM-generated code...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The magic of a Hacker News Pre-Mortem
Imagine you're working on something for other developers that you really, really want to be great....
over a year ago
Imagine you're working on something for other developers that you really, really want to be great. Perhaps you're creating a new startup, perhaps…
Liz Denys
Save Congestion Pricing!
Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of...
7 months ago
Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of congestion pricing on June 30.
Your voice is urgently needed to stand up for a funded MTA with increased accessibility, a healthy planet, and good government in New York. Stop a $15...
samwho.dev
The dos and don'ts of large, online communities
One of the ways I spend my spare time is moderating the Programming Discussions Discord server. It's...
over a year ago
One of the ways I spend my spare time is moderating the Programming Discussions Discord server. It's an online community of almost 20,000 people, focussed around helping people with their programming problems through real-time chat.
A frequent mistake I see people make in the...
Tony Finch's blog
GCRA: leaky buckets without the buckets
Yesterday I read an article describing the GCRA rate limiting
algorithm. I thought it was really...
4 months ago
Yesterday I read an article describing the GCRA rate limiting
algorithm. I thought it was really interesting, but I wasn’t
entirely satisfied with Brandur’s explanation, and the Wikipedia
articles on leaky buckets and GCRA are terrible, so here’s
my version.
what is GCRA?
GCRA is...
Blog System/5
Why do I know shell, and how can you?
My personal story with this ancient language and some tips to learn it
a year ago
My personal story with this ancient language and some tips to learn it
TokyoDev
To -San or Not to -San? Addressing Japanese People in English
It’s your first day at your new Japanese company, and your coworker approaches with a smile....
4 months ago
It’s your first day at your new Japanese company, and your coworker approaches with a smile. “Hello!” she says in English. “My name’s Rin Takahashi. I look forward to working with you.”
“Likewise!” you say. “It’s nice to meet you, Takahashi-san.”
“Oh, you can call me Rin!”
Oh no,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Developer Exception Engineering
It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the...
over a year ago
It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the uncomfortable ones.
TokyoDev
The rise and fall of D&D in Japan
In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan,...
10 months ago
In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan, achieving massive popularity. The Japanese version of the Basic Rule Set (known as the “red box”) sold an impressive 100,000 copies in its first year. The following year, the gaming...
Coding Horror
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015....
over a year ago
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that's yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
A small freedom area...
Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games
As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up
watching a large...
8 months ago
As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up
watching a large number of video tutorials on the subject. Even though the
quality of the content is pretty variable, I'm very grateful to the creators
for it. That being said, I couldn't help...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The introduction to TypeScript Generics you've been missing
> Note: this is an unfinished draft, but I'm sharing it anyway as an outline
over a year ago
> Note: this is an unfinished draft, but I'm sharing it anyway as an outline
Oxide Computer...
RFD 1 Requests for Discussion
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo...
over a year ago
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo houses our requests for discussion. Bryan teased this to the internet…
…and folks asked for our process, so we are going to share it!
The best way to describe RFDs is with “RFD 1...
TokyoDev
How TokyoDev improves your job hunt
Hi, I’m Paul, the founder of TokyoDev. Our mission is to help international software developers...
4 months ago
Hi, I’m Paul, the founder of TokyoDev. Our mission is to help international software developers begin and grow their careers in Japan.
To achieve this, we:
Manage an online and in-person community of developers in Japan.
Research and write original articles on navigating life in...
Epic Web Dev
Replace Remix's unstable_parseMultipartFormData with @mjackson/form-data-parser (tip)
Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or...
4 months ago
Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or @mjackson/form-data-parser with custom file size validation.
samwho.dev
API Design: Errors
Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems...
over a year ago
Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems from time to time, and an error is the first thing they're going to see when they do. It's worth spending time on them to make using your API a more pleasant experience.
›
Guiding...
Maggie Appleton
Folk Interfaces
People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
over a year ago
People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
The Pragmatic...
Happy Leap Day!
29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how...
10 months ago
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.
Elad Blog
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
a year ago
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
A Smart Bear
Metrics that cannot even be measured in retrospect
Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's...
a year ago
Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's now to identify and avoid this trap.
Renegade Otter
A Lannister Always Pays His Technical Debts
A tale of two rewrites
Jamie Zawinski is kind of a tech legend. He came up with the name “Mozilla”,...
11 months ago
A tale of two rewrites
Jamie Zawinski is kind of a tech legend. He came up with the name “Mozilla”, invented that whole
thing where you can send HTML in emails, and more. In his harrowing work diary of how
Mosaic/Netscape
came to be, Jamie
described
the burnout rodeo that was...
Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
8 months ago
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago:
@solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
David Heinemeier...
Apple is in its Ballmer era
During Ballmer's reign as CEO of Microsoft, the company always made plenty of money. While the stock...
10 months ago
During Ballmer's reign as CEO of Microsoft, the company always made plenty of money. While the stock traded sideways, Ballmer made sure it was still raining dividends. Yet, today, that era of Microsoft is not looked upon too fondly. It's seen as being anchored in the company's...
ntietz.com blog
Why do companies hire people to be idle a lot of the time?
The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers.
In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000...
a year ago
The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers.
In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000 software engineers.
That is just mind boggling scale to me.
It's roughly as many people as the whole county I grew up in.
They are paying a lot of engineers.
Some of them do very...
PostHog's RSS Feed
8 annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know
1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is...
a year ago
1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is including users in your experiment who aren't actually…
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2024
The ware for December 2024 is shown below. This one should be a cakewalk, and I’m mostly sharing it...
3 weeks ago
The ware for December 2024 is shown below. This one should be a cakewalk, and I’m mostly sharing it because I had trouble searching for a recent example at an image quality sufficient to make out most of the part numbers. Maybe this can help someone else in a similar fix! Warm...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Apollo and App Icons
As a self-proclaimed app icon-noisseur, I’ve followed Apollo from the sidelines for a while. I...
a year ago
As a self-proclaimed app icon-noisseur, I’ve followed Apollo from the sidelines for a while. I absolutely love all the great app icon variations Christian has commissioned for the app. (Photo from @BasicAppleGuy.)
It’s sad to see Apollo go. As I noted, Christian was a...
HTMHell
5 HTML elements, And a partridge in a despair tree
HTML is a beautiful programming language. It comes with many out-of-the-box accessibility...
over a year ago
HTML is a beautiful programming language. It comes with many out-of-the-box accessibility benefits—it conveys semantic meaning to assistive technology, enabling people to consume content and complete often important journeys that they may not be able to do outside of the web. So...
Dan Quach Blog
Data Engineering Low Code Tools
In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our...
a year ago
In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our radar. Low code tools have their own nuances as you will get to operationalize quicker, but the minute you need to customize something outside of the toolbox, you may run into...
Alice GG
How to publish your Godot game on Mac
Since 2019, Apple has required all MacOS software to be signed and notarized.
This is meant to...
4 months ago
Since 2019, Apple has required all MacOS software to be signed and notarized.
This is meant to prevent naive users from installing malware while running software from unknown sources.
Since this process is convoluted, it stops many indie game developers from releasing their Godot...
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...
a year ago
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...
Liz Denys
He's not my friend.
Appearances can be deceiving.
When a man comes over to talk to me, I can't always speak my mind....
over a year ago
Appearances can be deceiving.
When a man comes over to talk to me, I can't always speak my mind. What I want to say is often not what someone else wants to hear, and I learned early in life that men who don't hear what they want to hear often get angry. Maybe that anger will...
HTMHell
#20 HTMHell special: close buttons
This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in...
over a year ago
This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in front-end development:
🔥 the close button. 🔥
In modals, ads, and other overlays you often find a button with a close symbol that allows users, or at least some of them, to close...
Dan Slimmon
Why transaction order matters, even if you’re only reading
There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET...
a year ago
There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET TRANSACTION statement. They are: This last guarantee is one against serialization anomalies. A serialization anomaly is any sequence of events that produces a result that would be...
Elad Blog
Index Companies
Sometimes there are markets that are clearly going to grow massively over time. For example,...
over a year ago
Sometimes there are markets that are clearly going to grow massively over time. For example, ecommerce, genomics, crypto are all markets which were clearly going to compound over time. It might have been tough to call the winners of each market early, but it was clear the markets...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Dev tool marketing for early-stage startups – what we’ve learned
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes...
a year ago
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers. There are plenty of…
alexwlchan
What is psephology?
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
8 months ago
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news.
As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine):
Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
Acko.net
Climbing Mount Effect
Declarative Code and Effects
This is a series about incrementalism in code and coding. On the one...
over a year ago
Declarative Code and Effects
This is a series about incrementalism in code and coding. On the one hand, I mean code that is rewindable and resumable. On the other, I mean incremental changes in how we code.
This is not an easy topic, because understanding some of the best...
A Smart Bear
The "Talk vs Walk" framework
This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and...
over a year ago
This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and Product, generating actions for both sides that make products more desirable and competitive.
Eric Bailey
Keeping track of letter-spacing, some guidelines
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Not Everything Can Be Feature Detected
In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript....
over a year ago
In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript. Sometimes, you'd write the same code in two or three different ways to support various browsers. Code such as that shown below allowed webpages to work in browsers like Netscape...
Kagi Blog
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).
a year ago
This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Novela by Narative (updated)
With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier...
over a year ago
With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier for anyone to grasp the power of this incredible tool.
Dan Slimmon
Ask questions first, shoot later
The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that...
8 months ago
The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that these two concurrent activities have different goals. The goal of fixing is to bring the system into line with your mental model of how it's supposed to function. The goal of...
37signals Dev
Introducing Solid Queue
We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about...
a year ago
We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about 1/3 of our roughly 18 million jobs per day. We’ll be moving more jobs in the coming days until we run HEY exclusively using Solid Queue. Besides regular job enqueuing and processing,...
Engineer’s Codex
4 lessons from software teams that ship fast
Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount...
a year ago
Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount of value or impact a huge number of users. For example, Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers, back in 2011. Examples of teams that ship fast
Steve Klabnik
The profile link relation and you
over a year ago
Coding Horror
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living,...
over a year ago
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer:
We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow
PostHog's RSS Feed
Pivot to PostHog
YC has been running for 15 years, and getting bigger every year. That means there are more than...
over a year ago
YC has been running for 15 years, and getting bigger every year. That means there are more than 2,000 companies in their network. Many are still small…
bt RSS Feed
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
2021-09-23
I have an old 2011 MacBook Air...
over a year ago
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
2021-09-23
I have an old 2011 MacBook Air that is running the latest version of macOS Catalina thanks to the very wonderful Catalina Patcher by dosdude1. This project has made it possible for me to run and test some of...
Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2024
I didn’t write much this year.
The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative...
3 weeks ago
I didn’t write much this year.
The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative mental capacity leaving little for writing.
The backlog is brimming, however.
Targets for 2024
❌ Publish at least 40 posts
11
❌ Reach at least 200k readers
Don’t have an...
Renegade Otter
AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You
.highlight pre {
background-color: #efecec;
border-color:...
9 months ago
.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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Write Errors That Don't Make Me Think
How we plan to fail with Thoughtful Error Message Design at Temporal.
over a year ago
How we plan to fail with Thoughtful Error Message Design at Temporal.
A Beautiful Site
Reflection and Custom States in Web Components
In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both...
7 months ago
In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both internally and as public APIs for consumers. If you're not familiar, attribute reflection occurs when an attribute in the DOM is updated due to changes in a corresponding property.
A...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Two Quick Tips When Building With React Router
I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I...
11 months ago
I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I had known when I started.
So I’m writing them down in case anyone else is about to start a React Router app.
1. Flat Action Data When Using JSON
If you’re submitting JSON,...
Making software...
Browser History Sucks
Browser History Sucks
2019-04-20
Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to...
over a year ago
Browser History Sucks
2019-04-20
Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to find a particular site or product? Do you remember that experience being good? Most likely not.
Much like printers, the design of browser history interfaces hasn't changed in years....
Eric Bailey
The world does not revolve around your product
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Growing Teams and Baking Bread
One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it...
over a year ago
One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it ferments some of the sugars in the dough into alcohol and carbon dioxide, resulting in a growing, bubbly mass of dough.
There are some tricks to making dough rise quickly, like using...
TokyoDev
The Downside of Thanking Security Contributors
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've...
over a year ago
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've occasionally gotten reports about security issues, and although we're a two-person company, we still take security seriously, so we decided to create security and responsible disclosure...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSS in HTML
I have a question: has anyone ever tried to standardize an RSS feed in HTML?
I can’t find any...
a year ago
I have a question: has anyone ever tried to standardize an RSS feed in HTML?
I can’t find any discussion around it — but I’d love to read more about the idea because it intrigues me.
The OG RSS was an XML feed.
Later we got JSON feeds.
So why not an HTML feed standard? (I know,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #17: The personal traits that can't be taught
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Josh Collinsworth
Social Media, Compulsion, and the 12 Things I Learned on My Break from Facebook
I’m beginning to believe that becoming more connected with everyone is making me less connected with...
over a year ago
I’m beginning to believe that becoming more connected with everyone is making me less connected with anyone.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Ditch google analytics now: 7 open-source alternatives
I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's...
a year ago
I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's free, easy to set up (just drop a few tags on the page), and that's what I knew back then. I did not enjoy it being run by a big corporation, but I was too lazy to research the...
Max Countryman
Let It Fail
I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I...
a year ago
I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I feel compelled to jump in and lend a hand. However, sometimes that's a leadership blunder which does a greater disservice to the longer view of things.
General Robots
Writing Libraries for AIs to Use
Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers...
a year ago
Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.” but in the future we have a third category. I think that programs and libraries (and programming languages?) that lend themselves to effective AI assistance will win...
Epic Web Dev
React Server Components: The Future of UI (article)
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once...
6 months ago
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once we nail the abstractions...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Managing pure Common Lisp files on Medley
< as a static site generator, where...
over a year ago
This blog now uses [Svelte & Sapper](https://sapper.svelte.dev/) as a static site generator, where it [previously used React & Gatsby](https://5d7699e172ae430007210374--scout-videos-51664.netlify.com/writing/moving-to-novela). This is achieved through [Sapper's `sapper export`...
macwright.com
Recently
Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and
will write about some retrospectives...
over a year ago
Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and
will write about some retrospectives on how the business and such
have gone, but for now, let’s keep this traditional, a good old-fashioned
Recently.
Reading
This month’s theme, looking back on it, was feminism, and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Blogpost Annealing
Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
over a year ago
Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
Tony Finch's blog
getentropy() vs RAND_bytes()
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months:
There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024....
3 months ago
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months:
There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024. There’s lots of
good stuff in it, but today I am writing about getentropy()
which is the first officially standardized POSIX API for getting
cryptographically secure random...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we built our onboarding email flow (with actual performance data)
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks...
11 months ago
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks they're annoying and ineffective. The truth, as…
Patrick Kayongo
Iinkomo
“I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing...
a year ago
“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...
A Beautiful Site
A better way to write config files in PHP
How many times have you seen something like this in a config file?
$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_name...
over a year ago
How many times have you seen something like this in a config file?
$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_name = 'somedb';
$db_user = 'someuser';
$db_pass = 'somepass';
Then, of course, it gets included and the variables are referenced as globals:
include('config.php');
echo $db_host; //...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, August 2024
The Ware for August 2024 is shown below. Thanks to Howie M for contributing this ware!
5 months ago
The Ware for August 2024 is shown below. Thanks to Howie M for contributing this ware!
HTMHell
PSA: Stop using the title attribute as tooltip!
by Daniela Kubesch
It's almost 2025, so it's time to stop using the title attribute everywhere....
a month ago
by Daniela Kubesch
It's almost 2025, so it's time to stop using the title attribute everywhere. Images, text, buttons, ... you name it, devs really like to put it on any element in sight. Most of the time, people actually want to create a tooltip. You know, that little bubble of...
A Beautiful Site
The next version of PHP may very well be 7
We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact,...
over a year ago
We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact, the project was so plagued with problems that in 2010, it was abandoned. It almost felt like PHP would be perpetually stuck at version 5.
Except now there's talk about another major...
Steve Klabnik
Write better cukes with the rel attribute
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization
Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
over a year ago
Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
Steve Klabnik
The self improvement pomodoro
over a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
against /tmp
I commented on Lobsters that /tmp is usually a bad idea,
which caused some surprise. I suppose /tmp...
3 months ago
I commented on Lobsters that /tmp is usually a bad idea,
which caused some surprise. I suppose /tmp security bugs were common
in the 1990s when I was learning Unix, but they are pretty rare now so
I can see why less grizzled hackers might not be familiar with the
problems.
I...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes From “You Are Not A Gadget”
Jaron Lanier’s book You Are Not a Gadget was written in 2010, but its preface is a prescient banger...
7 months ago
Jaron Lanier’s book You Are Not a Gadget was written in 2010, but its preface is a prescient banger for 2024, the year of our AI overlord:
It's early in the 21st century, and that means that these words will mostly be read by nonpersons...[they] will be minced...within industrial...
ntietz.com blog
Alpha-beta pruning illustrated by the smothered mate
I've been working on Patzer, a chess engine, during my time at RC.
The first engine-like thing I...
over a year ago
I've been working on Patzer, a chess engine, during my time at RC.
The first engine-like thing I implemented for it was alpha-beta pruning, which is a way of pruning out branches of the search tree to significantly speed up search.
This is a common algorithm, which I also...
Alex Meub
Building an Arcade Stick
I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an...
over a year ago
I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an arcade stick (also called a “fight stick”). Here’s the finished product:
Materials and Components
I had some leftover IKEA oak butcher block from a kitchen project and I thought...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and...
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
over a year ago
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
Vadim Kravcenko
10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens
Question:
Answer:
The post 10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
9 months ago
Question:
Answer:
The post 10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Irrational...
Using cultural survey data.
When I was at Stripe, I reworked the hiring process for Director-plus engineering managers.
My goal...
a year ago
When I was at Stripe, I reworked the hiring process for Director-plus engineering managers.
My goal was to better evaluate polished senior leaders who always said the right thing.
I wanted to find the real beliefs and behaviors underneath all the polish.
One interview focused on...
orlp.net - Blog...
The World's Smallest Hash Table
This December I once again did the Advent of Code,
in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions
are...
a year ago
This December I once again did the Advent of Code,
in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions
are on Github. I wanted to highlight one particular solution to the day 2
problem as it is both optimized completely
beyond the point of reason yet contains a useful technique. For...
Marco.org
Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any...
over a year ago
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any correspondence with him.
But losing him was devastating — not just to my world, but the world.
He was a sort of virtual father figure: I was always hoping that maybe Steve would...
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Shortcodes vs MDX
Comparing the two popular custom dynamic content solutions!
over a year ago
Comparing the two popular custom dynamic content solutions!
Epic Web Dev
Anatomy of a Test (article)
Explore the analogy between learning human anatomy and writing code tests, emphasizing a universal...
12 months ago
Explore the analogy between learning human anatomy and writing code tests, emphasizing a universal three-step structure: Setup, Action, and Assertion.
Jibran’s Perspective
My knowledge management system
This is a follow-up on my previous notes about Zettelkasten; Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip...
over a year ago
This is a follow-up on my previous notes about Zettelkasten; Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box. Since then, I’ve had a chance to read and think more about the problems I listed out with trying to adapt a Zettelkasten style slip box for my knowledge management system.
I’ve...
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...
a year ago
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.
ntietz.com blog
Writing a basic code formatter
I've been working on my programming language for a couple of months now, in fits and starts1.
In the...
a year ago
I've been working on my programming language for a couple of months now, in fits and starts1.
In the original post, I laid out my plan for it, and after creating the parser the next step was writing a formatter.
I thought this would be a nice intermediate step after writing the...
Joel Gascoigne
Want to help your hometown? Pack up and leave
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I’ve done a lot...
over a year ago
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I’ve done a lot of traveling
[https://joel.is/post/27260290057/thoughts-on-travelling-with-your-startup]
throughout my journey with Buffer. I started in the UK, and since then I’ve
lived in Hong...
Florian Bellmann |...
Why I blog
The reasons why I started blogging.
a year ago
The reasons why I started blogging.
Steve Klabnik
Single text, many masters
over a year ago
Hixie's Natural Log
Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs
One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the
quality of our API documentation....
a year ago
One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the
quality of our API documentation. With Flutter's web support, we're
even able to literally inline full sample applications into the API
docs and have them literally editable and executable inline. For
example,...
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...
over a year ago
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...
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Benchmarking the impact of session recording on performance
The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session...
over a year ago
The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session recording – a screen-recording-like service that…
Words and Buttons...
Honeycomb texture generator
It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if...
over a year ago
It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if you need more, there is some changeable code too. If you need more freedom, just get this thing on Github.
Ognjen Regoje •...
CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must...
a year ago
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must have some justification.
Remote work increases individual productivity, so what are they trading off against then?
One argument is serendipity and those spontaneous moments of...
Seán Barry
Useful reusable functions I use in (almost) every Meteor application
Some core functions I find myself reusing in almost every Meteor.js application I build.
over a year ago
Some core functions I find myself reusing in almost every Meteor.js application I build.
Maggie Appleton
Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History
Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse
8 months ago
Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse
ntietz.com blog
What's in my software engineering tool belt?
One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I...
a year ago
One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I use.
When I read a post recently about a data journalist's data tool belt, well...
I knew I'd have to share my own software engineering tool belt, too.
So, here's my software...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware, November 2024
The Ware for November 2024 is the NLP-16A by cherry-takuan. It’s a bespoke 16-bit CPU made entirely...
3 weeks ago
The Ware for November 2024 is the NLP-16A by cherry-takuan. It’s a bespoke 16-bit CPU made entirely from 74HC00 NAND gates. Even the D-flip flops are made from NAND gates: Lots and lots of NAND gates… I got to meet the maker, who goes by Cherry Takuan, at the Chiba Institute of...
Daniel Marino
Building a Random Music Sequencer with Preact
As I've composed music for video games, something that has piqued my interest is the concept of...
over a year ago
As I've composed music for video games, something that has piqued my interest is the concept of randomly generating music. Not that this is a new concept, but I was curious to see what I could come up with. Go ahead and check out the RMG-2021.
Design
I love how sequencers look...
Eric Bailey
Revisiting prefers-reduced-motion, the reduced motion media query
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up a Free SSL
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
over a year ago
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol.
Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
Steve Klabnik
Writing a su feature with Authlogic
over a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
My surprise brother
I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave
birth to him in 1959 and...
over a year ago
I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave
birth to him in 1959 and immediately gave him up for adoption. My mother
died two decades ago so details are hard to come by. My brother worked for
years to find us. I'm glad he succeeded! And I feel sad...
Programming in the...
Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult
We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last...
over a year ago
We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last 30 seconds. Or the reverse, where a once speedy bar takes 50% of the time covering the last few pixels. And bars that occasionally jump backward in time are not the rarity you'd...
Coding Horror
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web
When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it...
over a year ago
When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30.
Websites have gotten a lot
The Pragmatic...
PagerDuty alternatives
12 alternatives to the market-leading alerting tool, PagerDuty.
a year ago
12 alternatives to the market-leading alerting tool, PagerDuty.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Temporal Transparency Update
Our 9th transparency update describing how we are shipping the upcoming Authentication feature
over a year ago
Our 9th transparency update describing how we are shipping the upcoming Authentication feature
MMapped blog
Tutorial: stable-structures
over a year ago
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...
4 months ago
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...
Josh Collinsworth
First impressions of the MoErgo Glove80 ergonomic keyboard
How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my...
a year ago
How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my impressions after the first few weeks of use.
Writing - Andreas...
Summer reading list 2024
Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being
read after decades or...
4 months ago
Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being
read after decades or centuries, it must contain some universal truths or
be useful at a fundamental level.
TokyoDev
Bank Account, Mobile Number, Apartment - Which Comes First after Moving to Japan?
When you move to Japan for a long-term stay, you’ll need to set up some things when you get here - a...
a year ago
When you move to Japan for a long-term stay, you’ll need to set up some things when you get here - a place to live, a mobile number, a bank account, etc. And this is where you may encounter the following chicken-and-egg problem.
> To rent an apartment, you need a mobile...
Liz Denys
A short comic about the Internet Protocol
Just a cleaned up version of a silly little comic that I came up with during a 6.033 (Computer...
over a year ago
Just a cleaned up version of a silly little comic that I came up with during a 6.033 (Computer Systems Engineering) recitation last semester:
swyx's site RSS Feed
You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox
If you fit one of these criteria:
a year ago
If you fit one of these criteria:
Patrick Kayongo
Substack vs Africa
The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging...
5 months ago
The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging and online writing was dead, superseded by YouTube, Substack came along and solved the problems of discovery and monetisation. Their feed and recommendations have allowed many to...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Building an Infinite Spreadsheet
As of late, I’ve been working on Quadratic: an infinite canvas spreadsheet that runs code. Think...
a year ago
As of late, I’ve been working on Quadratic: an infinite canvas spreadsheet that runs code. Think Figma (infinite canvas) meets Excel (spreadsheet) meets VSCode (IDE). In addition to formulas (e.g. SUM(A1:A5)) every cell in Quadratic can be the result of code (right now it’s...
Ruud van Asseldonk
The yaml document from hell
over a year ago
Making software...
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD
2023-06-05
VSCode and its many variations are not available on...
a year ago
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD
2023-06-05
VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn't cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a hacky...
A small freedom area...
Figuring out round, floor and ceil with integer division
Lately I've been transforming a float based algorithm to integers in order to
make it bit-exact....
over a year ago
Lately I've been transforming a float based algorithm to integers in order to
make it bit-exact. Preserving the precision as best as possible was way more
challenging than I initially though, which forced me to go deep down the rabbit
hole. During the process I realized I had...
Dan Cowell
"balls": The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet.
I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline...
a year ago
I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline support drone at a local web agency.
Everything that could have gone wrong this particular morning, had. I'd woken up late, made a mess of my breakfast,
Liz Denys
L'Insurrection qui vient
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and...
over a year ago
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and the stories towards which I let my eyes venture. Rereading tends to bring a part of me back to previous points in times, and occasionally, I partake in this.
But there are few...
Liz Denys
6/8 time, beat on the dotted quarter, 60 bpm
My subconscious seems to be running in 6/8 time with the beat on the dotted quarter and 60 beats per...
over a year ago
My subconscious seems to be running in 6/8 time with the beat on the dotted quarter and 60 beats per minute; at least, whenever I sit down at a piano without sheet music in front of me, I always converge on that setting. Sometimes, I write some of these musings down:
I've...
Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0.beta1 release
over a year ago
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
3 weeks ago
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
ntietz.com blog
Insights and questions from the original waterfall paper
The waterfall model is probably the most reviled methodology in software engineering.
This...
a year ago
The waterfall model is probably the most reviled methodology in software engineering.
This methodology was first described in a 1970 paper by Dr. Winston Royce.
This paper didn't call it waterfall, nor did it endorse the technique, and the paper contains a lot of good insights...
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