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...
Eric Bailey
Heading elements have been added to Project board views to improve screen reader page navigation
4 months ago
TokyoDev
Tech Meetups in Tokyo
Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into...
a year ago
Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into attending tech meetups.
Tech meetups are events held online and offline, and attending them is a great way to form connections and establish yourself in the tech community. It...
Tinloof - Blog
How we boosted the performance of a Gatsby website by 80%
Sbaï Dentaire is the number 1 user-rated dental practice in Casablanca (Morocco) by Google...
over a year ago
Sbaï Dentaire is the number 1 user-rated dental practice in Casablanca (Morocco) by Google users:
Many patients book appointments through the website on the go from their mobile, therefore page speed is critical to avoid a high bounce rate.
This article explains how we improved...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 4
This is day 4 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
over a year ago
This is day 4 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
Vadim Kravcenko
How dangerous is over-engineering for a start up?
Hey there, I appreciate your question—it’s a complex one that many startups, including those I’ve...
a year ago
Hey there, I appreciate your question—it’s a complex one that many startups, including those I’ve consulted with, grapple with. I […]
The post How dangerous is over-engineering for a start up? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Epic Web Dev
Testing Accessibility with Keyboard (article)
Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all...
4 months ago
Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all users, including those using assistive technologies.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Errors Aren’t All Bad
Adam Silver wrote “Don’t use the maxlength attribute to stop users from exceeding the limit” which...
8 months ago
Adam Silver wrote “Don’t use the maxlength attribute to stop users from exceeding the limit” which seems like one of those obvious things that needn’t be said, but I’m glad he says it.
Have you heard of the “error prevention” heuristic?
It means “do everything you can so users...
the singularity is...
p(doom)
Yesterday I debated Eliezer Yudkowsky
This is totally me spitballing here, but I think the crux of...
a year ago
Yesterday I debated Eliezer Yudkowsky
This is totally me spitballing here, but I think the crux of the debate is whether AIs will look more like formal systems or like inscrutable weight matrices.
I think it’s the latter, and I think it’s the something like the latter forever....
David Heinemeier...
Optimize for bio cores first, silicon cores second
A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it...
4 months ago
A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it might materially lower their payroll for programmers. If a company currently needs 10 programmers to do a job, each have a cost of $200,000/year, then that's a $2m/year problem. If AI...
A Smart Bear
Discount gambit
Discounting is the typical sales technique, but refusing to discount can lead to a much better...
a year ago
Discounting is the typical sales technique, but refusing to discount can lead to a much better business, even in the Enterprise.
Liz Denys
A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Mitered Corner Blanket
A fan of my Library Blanket color palette preview tool asked if I could make one for the Mitered...
over a year ago
A fan of my Library Blanket color palette preview tool asked if I could make one for the Mitered Corner Blanket, so I did. This blanket's square building blocks are also made by holding different pairs of yarns together, so this tool can be used to help imagine how a custom yarn...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bad Ways to Get Data
In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very...
over a year ago
In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very peculiar problem: my pages were being generated a lot more slowly than expected:
Eric Bailey
Voice Control Usability Considerations For Partially Visually Hidden Link Names
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
How to build a cloud-hosted accessibility testing Windows computer using Amazon WorkSpaces
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons
Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons:
And...
9 months ago
Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons:
And just for good measure, here’s a few more — I love this stuff.
While some apps made this transition fun (and further infused their brand with character), others did not. They did...
Computer Things
Logic for Programmers now in early access!
I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in...
6 months ago
I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in early access, it's almost 20,000 words, has 30 exercises, and covers a wide variety of logic applications:
Property testing
Functional correctness and contracts
Formal...
Basta’s Notes
I ask three questions
When I'm interviewing for a job, these are the questions I ask
a year ago
When I'm interviewing for a job, these are the questions I ask
Computer Things
New blog post: Composing TLA+ Specifications
Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers....
7 months ago
Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers. Patreon here.
Anyway, I'm off to get a bone graft. Proper newsletter will come later this week when I've got more time to write.
PostHog's RSS Feed
The really important job interview questions engineers should ask (but don't)
Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from...
over a year ago
Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from this? It's normal for candidates not to ask harder…
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...
blag
Recurse Center Day 2: BTree Node
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to...
over a year ago
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to write as much as possible, log my daily learnings and activities. But, I also don't want to spend time on grammar and prose, so I am publishing all the posts which usually I'd have...
TokyoDev
How Cybozu Built an International Engineering Team
While domestically quite successful, Cybozu struggled to attract international customers—until they...
4 months ago
While domestically quite successful, Cybozu struggled to attract international customers—until they started their own English-speaking, international unit from scratch.
Domestic vs. foreign success
Cybozu, founded in 1997, was one of Japan’s first B2B software companies. They’ve...
The Changelog
More Topics on Store-And-Forward (Possibly Airgapped) ZFS and Non-ZFS Backups with NNCP
Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and...
over a year ago
Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and NNCP. In my previous post, I introduced a way to use ZFS backups over NNCP. In this post, I’ll expand on that and also explore non-ZFS backups. Use of nncp-file instead of nncp-exec...
bt RSS Feed
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0
2020-09-29
I have found that there is a lot of information...
over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0
2020-09-29
I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up “dynamic” navigation in Jekyll. The problem I’ve noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
Josh Comeau's blog
Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid
Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is...
over a year ago
Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is also one of the trickiest. In this tutorial, I break down how to build the "full-bleed" layout using CSS Grid.
Steve Klabnik
Resque 1.25.0.pre has been released
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision
Rubrics are often used to select the best option in a multi-dimensional decision space. However,...
over a year ago
Rubrics are often used to select the best option in a multi-dimensional decision space. However, they often do not clearly identify a winner, nor do they result in an explanation of the decision that is easily communicated to others, especially those whose favorite option was...
Confessions of a...
The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine
A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
4 months ago
A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
Words and Buttons...
Yet another floating point tutorial
I still think that reexplaining some obscure concepts with different words (and buttons) might help...
over a year ago
I still think that reexplaining some obscure concepts with different words (and buttons) might help someone understand floating point numbers better. To do fewer mistakes, to make things faster, to create better software in general.
David Heinemeier...
Apple’s new extortion regime to keep big app makers
Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a...
12 months ago
Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a big, revealing moment to a lot of people. Folks who perhaps didn’t think Apple would be “that kind of company”. That they wouldn't so blatantly threaten developers into compliance...
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!
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2023
The Ware for October 2023 is shown below. Thanks to JeffreyO for contributing this ware!
a year ago
The Ware for October 2023 is shown below. Thanks to JeffreyO for contributing this ware!
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.22.0
PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual bug squashing. Community MVP The community MVP…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Night Time Sky
Read more about RSS Club.
When I was a kid, my Dad used to take us outside to look for what...
7 months ago
Read more about RSS Club.
When I was a kid, my Dad used to take us outside to look for what he called “UFOs”. It’d take a moment, but after enough searching we’d eventually spot one.
One night, all of us kids were outside with our uncle. We saw a star-like light moving in...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Kubit
Kubit is a product analytics platform built for product teams. PostHog, on the other hand, is built...
a year ago
Kubit is a product analytics platform built for product teams. PostHog, on the other hand, is built primarily for engineers. In this article we’ll…
Steve Klabnik
Rust's documentation is about to drastically improve
over a year ago
Kagi Blog
What's next for Kagi?
Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a...
7 months ago
Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web.
bt RSS Feed
HTML Dark Mode
HTML Dark Mode
2023-04-11
I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer’s Dark
Mode...
a year ago
HTML Dark Mode
2023-04-11
I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer’s Dark
Mode where I explained how to implement
a very basic “dark mode” by using the prefers-color-scheme CSS attribute.
This stills works perfectly fine, and in fact there is a cleaner variation...
A Smart Bear
Legacy
Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
4 months ago
Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
alexwlchan
Telling mechanize how to find local issuer certificates
I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize,...
a year ago
I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize, the Python library I use to simulate a web browser.
I’d upgraded my version of Python and mechanize, and now I wasn’t able to connect to HTTPS sites.
If I tried a simple...
Epic Web Dev
Preparing for a workshop with Kent C. Dodds (tip)
Full Stack Workshop Series Volume 1 and enhance your web development skills. Get step-by-step...
a year ago
Full Stack Workshop Series Volume 1 and enhance your web development skills. Get step-by-step instructions, resources, and hands-on exercises to level up.
Tony Finch's blog
Where does my computer get the time from?
This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting.
On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called...
a year ago
This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting.
On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called where does my
computer get the time from?
The RIPE meeting website has a copy of my slides and a video of the
talk; this is a blogified low-res version of the slides with a rough
and...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to choose job titles in your early stage startup
One huge mistake some startups make is using titles to establish and reinforce hierarchy. This is...
over a year ago
One huge mistake some startups make is using titles to establish and reinforce hierarchy. This is dangerous for two reasons: Iteration and speed…
Joel Gascoigne
The third option
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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In the recent...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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In the recent months I’ve realized I am very much in a bubble. Everyone I know
is building a company. Amongst my circle of friends, that is the norm. This,
however, is mostly out of choice: I...
TokyoDev
Why do so many Japanese homes have bars over the windows?
If you wander around any residential neighbourhood in Japan, you’ll notice many home windows with...
8 months ago
If you wander around any residential neighbourhood in Japan, you’ll notice many home windows with bars over them. This seems incongruous with the country’s reputation for safety, and so I sought to answer the question as to why.
“Crime prevention” is the obvious answer. But...
Cognitive...
Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning
It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning.
I was watching the excellent video by...
a year ago
It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning.
I was watching the excellent video by Andrej Karpathy about how to write a GPT (of which GPT-3 is an example) from scratch, using the paper "Attention is all you need"
I implemented it from scratch while watching the...
David Gerrells
how to use web workers with typescript
A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and...
over a year ago
A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and limits
charity.wtf
Every Achievement Has A Denominator
One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure...
over a year ago
One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure their own status, rank or value by the number of teams and people “under” them. Everyone knows you aren’t supposed to do this, but most of us secretly, sheepishly do it anyway to some...
Eric Bailey
Global Accessibility Anger Day
For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today,...
a year ago
For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today, ask:
Does the announcement page support basic accessibility considerations (underlined links, captioned videos, valid markup, etc.)?
Does the announcement include alternative descriptions...
Cognitive...
Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses
With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online...
2 months ago
With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online discussions around what these terms mean for developers, businesses, and everyday users of AI tools like ChatGPT. Much of the conversation, especiall...
Computer Things
What does 'TLA+' mean, anyway
TLA+ Workshop
Feb 12th. I've decided to reduce the class size from 20 to 15, so there's only a...
11 months ago
TLA+ Workshop
Feb 12th. I've decided to reduce the class size from 20 to 15, so there's only a couple of slots left! I'll be making a little less money this way but it should lead to a better teaching experience for the attendees. Use the code NEWSLETTERDISCOUNT for $100...
David Heinemeier...
We are a place of business
After the disastrous launch of their Gemini AI, which insisted that George Washington was actually...
9 months ago
After the disastrous launch of their Gemini AI, which insisted that George Washington was actually Black and couldn't decide whether Musk's tweets or Hitler was worse, Google's response was timid and weak. This was just a bug! A problem with QA! It absolutely, positively wasn't a...
Founder's blog
How to Hide Tethering from Your Mobile Operator
TLDR:
Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI
On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS...
over a year ago
TLDR:
Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI
On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS default 64 plus one).
•••
On my recent mountain biking trip to France I accidentally booked an Airbnb without WiFi. Bummer. But hey, 5 minutes of googling and I found a...
The Pragmatic...
The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices
What accidentally taking down Amazon.com in 1997 taught Joshua Burgin; tech industry veteran and one...
a year ago
What accidentally taking down Amazon.com in 1997 taught Joshua Burgin; tech industry veteran and one of Amazon’s first 100 employees
Blog - Bitfield...
Type parameters in Go
Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for
type parameters. We’ll...
10 months ago
Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for
type parameters. We’ll find out why we need type parameters, how we write
them, and how we can use them to create generic functions in Go.
Eric Bailey
Focus Management and Inert
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Introducing Yet Another Rust Resource (or YARR!)
Rust is a hard language to learn, in the scheme
1
of things.
I've previously talked about why...
a year ago
Rust is a hard language to learn, in the scheme
1
of things.
I've previously talked about why the learning curve is hard and what we could do about it.
Today, I'm proud to say that there's another resource to help people learn Rust in a more approachable way.
Introducing Yet...
HTMHell
HTMHAIL
by Léonie Watson
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike...
Can you give me the HTML for an...
a month ago
by Léonie Watson
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike...
Can you give me the HTML for an accessible button please?
It was a simple enough question. Or it would have been, had I been asking another person. As it was, I was asking ChatGPT, and so of course there was nothing...
Basta’s Notes
I'm going to run for president
And I want you to be angry, too
3 days ago
And I want you to be angry, too
Maggie Appleton
Plebeian Programming with Keyboard Maestro
How to write macros without touching the terminal
over a year ago
How to write macros without touching the terminal
swyx's site RSS Feed
Typesafe, Fullstack React & GraphQL with AWS Amplify
This is the blog version of a talk I am giving at React Summit 2020
over a year ago
This is the blog version of a talk I am giving at React Summit 2020
Vladimir Klepov as a...
I conducted 60 interviews in 2 months — here's what I learned
It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired...
a year ago
It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired 10 people into our team. It's been extremely tiring: around 80 hours of active interviewing, plus writing interview reports, plus screening CVs and take-home assignments, plus...
Stephen Wolfram...
Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳
::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture...
over a year ago
::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture RootTree ImplicitD “ExprStruct” ChemicalConvert UniqueElements ReplaceAt TypeEvaluate TreeLeafCount QuestionSelector IncludeSingularSolutions KernelConfiguration PhongShading...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Wäre July 2023
The Ware for July 2023 is a “KUP 10” by aditec. Also, thanks to FETguy, we now have a schematic of...
a year ago
The Ware for July 2023 is a “KUP 10” by aditec. Also, thanks to FETguy, we now have a schematic of the ware: The spirit of Name that Ware is about demystifying electronics and encouraging people to learn by taking things apart. Drawing a schematic from an image of a circuit board...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Actually Structured Journaling (Jan 2025)
I was very excited when I saw Cal Newport's episode on Structured Journaling come up, but I was...
2 weeks ago
I was very excited when I saw Cal Newport's episode on Structured Journaling come up, but I was disappointed by the recommendations:
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing HogQL: Direct SQL access for PostHog
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your...
a year ago
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your PostHog data using SQL . We call this HogQL because…
Making software...
My Robotic Mower Woes
My Robotic Mower Woes
2023-05-19
A Brief Background
I'm no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my...
a year ago
My Robotic Mower Woes
2023-05-19
A Brief Background
I'm no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my wife and I moved into our rural home just over five years ago, we picked up the Husqvarna 450X Automower since I was far too lazy to manually mow my property and the cost was equal...
blag
How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine
In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how...
over a year ago
In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how to configure git emails per directory or per project.
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Even if you can't write assembly like a poet, you can read disassembly like a hunter
This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the...
a year ago
This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the skills to start reading disassembly right now even if you thought it was too complicated for you. It really isn't, see it for yourself.
TokyoDev
Good Design Sells Open Source
I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to
[Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a...
over a year ago
I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to
[Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a blogging framework backed by the
static site generator [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/). I first read about
Octopress a couple of weeks ago on Hacker News. Although Octopress
appealed...
Maggie Appleton
Computational Notebooks
Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code
a year ago
Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code
Ralph Ammer
Xunzi vs. Mengzi – Are People (No) Good?
About 2300 years ago, the great Chinese thinker Xunzi 荀⼦ wrote: “Human nature is bad“. But he wasn’t...
3 weeks ago
About 2300 years ago, the great Chinese thinker Xunzi 荀⼦ wrote: “Human nature is bad“. But he wasn’t just having a bad day. The question—Are humans fundamentally good or bad?—is a major fork in the road. How you answer this question profoundly impacts your morals and how you live...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
over a year ago
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Stealth Airplanes & Best Practices
I recently finished reading (actually listening to as it was an audiobook) Skunk Works: A Personal...
a year ago
I recently finished reading (actually listening to as it was an audiobook) Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Ben Rich.
tldr; I quite enjoyed the (audio)book. It’s a fascinating look at how a collective group of people can find innovative solutions at the...
Joel Gascoigne
Giving your startup a point of view
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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Something I’ve...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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Something I’ve mentioned before at the start of a post
[https://joel.is/post/4132813715/acting-with-incomplete-information-in-a-startup]
is that I often look back on quotes, blogs and books I’ve...
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...
Irrational...
Better to micromanage than be disengaged.
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with.
They would...
a year ago
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with.
They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs,
and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions.
In those moments, I wished...
Acko.net
The Hiker's Dilemma
How to take care of your tribe
The other day I read:
"If you're hiking and you stop to let other...
over a year ago
How to take care of your tribe
The other day I read:
"If you're hiking and you stop to let other people catch up, don't start walking immediately when they arrive. Because that means you got a rest and they didn't. I think about this a lot."
I want to dissect this sentiment...
Liz Denys
Recruitment is hard, part 2: goals and values
I spend a lot of time thinking about recruitment issues these days. This could be because I'm...
over a year ago
I spend a lot of time thinking about recruitment issues these days. This could be because I'm involved in a few student groups that have been spending a handful of time talking about it lately.
While a good portion of discussion about recruitment is (and should be) focused on...
Steve Klabnik
Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
over a year ago
elementary Blog
It's Disability Pride Month! Let's Get Accessible
This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and...
6 months ago
This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and plenty of OS 8 news.
Disability Pride Month
It’s disability pride month, which means making space to talk about how we can build communities and systems that better accommodate...
The Codist
My Wikipedia Entry For Trapeze
Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia.
It sure...
a year ago
Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia.
It sure seems like a long time ago.
Steve Klabnik
WebAssembly is more than just the web
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Live Session: CPython Memory Management Internals
Last week we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython’s main bytecode interpreter...
8 months ago
Last week we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython’s main bytecode interpreter (the VM), and the response from the attendees has been very encouraging. Next, I want to talk about how CPython implements memory management in its runtime. Most programming...
Engineer’s Codex
Clever code is probably the worst code you could write
And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
a year ago
And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
the singularity is...
Where the Bitter Lesson ends
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the...
10 months ago
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the thing we built can do the engineering.
Clips have been making the rounds on Twitter from my second Lex about the “bishop guy” in a chess engine, or a “cone guy” in a self driving...
Making software...
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
2021-12-17
Designing[^1] software is a complex...
over a year ago
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
2021-12-17
Designing[^1] software is a complex thing. A great deal of real-world testing and user feedback is needed to create the best solution to the problem you are trying to fix. Obvious requirements are to keep things...
Dan Slimmon
I was on the Slight Reliability podcast!
Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident...
9 months ago
Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident response, diagnosis, and looking for trouble. It was very chill! Full 28-minute episode:
Tinker, Tamper,...
On The End of Bitcoin
[This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date...
over a year ago
[This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date was May 24th, 2022. I have not added new content.]Is there some scientific literature/scenario planning on the End of Bitcoin? With the next two halvings mining income will shift...
Ferd.ca
Hiding Theory in Practice
2022/11/23
Hiding Theory in Practice
I'm a self-labeled incident nerd. I very much enjoy reading...
over a year ago
2022/11/23
Hiding Theory in Practice
I'm a self-labeled incident nerd. I very much enjoy reading books and papers about them, I hang out with other incident nerds, and I always look for ways to connect the theory I learn about with the events I see at work and in everyday life....
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My 2023 New Mac Setup
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
a year ago
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
A Beautiful Site
Zipping multiple folders into separate zip files
Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into...
over a year ago
Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into separate .zip files:
for i in */; do zip -r "${i%/}.zip" "$i"; done
I had to do this to 75+ folders today and this definitely saved me some time. It works on macOS too!
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!
Maggie Appleton
Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable
What's wrong with linear, static programming mediums and how might we improve them?
over a year ago
What's wrong with linear, static programming mediums and how might we improve them?
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Swyx Interview on Daily Dev Tips
I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
over a year ago
I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
ntietz.com blog
Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests
I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage.
We used tools like a...
11 months ago
I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage.
We used tools like a code coverage ratchet to ensure that the test coverage always went up and never down.
This had a few effects.
One of them was the intended effect: we wrote more tests.
Another was...
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How we made something people want
It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This...
over a year ago
It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This principle, and the ones that follow in this post…
Irrational...
Layers of context.
Recently I was chatting with a Staff-plus engineer who was struggling to influence his peers. Each...
a year ago
Recently I was chatting with a Staff-plus engineer who was struggling to influence his peers. Each time he suggested an approach, his team agreed with him, but his peers in the organization disagreed and pushed back. He wanted advice on why his peers kept undermining his...
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2023
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
a year ago
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
Joel Gascoigne
Your startup is a rocket ship
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over a year ago
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When you’re building a startup, the startup itself has a reputation and
credibility around it. The startup has tremendous power. As the startup rocket
ship takes off, the best thing you can do is...
Irrational...
Digital release of Engineering Executive's Primer.
Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday,
and physical...
11 months ago
Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday,
and physical copies will be available in March.
Also, as of this moment, you can purchase the digital edition on Amazon,
and read the full digital release on O’Reilly.
(You can preorder physical...
alexwlchan
Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line
Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages.
I already have tools...
8 months ago
Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages.
I already have tools to take screenshots, and I love them as a way to take quick snapshots and skim the history of a site, but bitmap images aren’t a great archival representation of a website.
What...
Oxide Computer...
Navigating Today’s Supply Chain Challenges
We’ve all experienced it. From toilet paper, exercise equipment, toys, cars, and everything in...
over a year ago
We’ve all experienced it. From toilet paper, exercise equipment, toys, cars, and everything in between, the supply chain during COVID has been blamed for many consumer goods shortages, and rightfully so. During lockdown, how many of us stalked our local warehouse clubs for that...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Grateful: Colors in console.log()
So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every...
3 months ago
So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every developer does: turn to console.log() and troubleshoot by logging values.
I have a named color (e.g. blue) and a corresponding HSL color string for that named color (e.g. 100 50%...
Evan Jones -...
Advice on looking for a new software engineering job
I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this...
over a year ago
I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this long enough that people now ask me for advice. I've only changed jobs 3 times in my career, so I'm not sure I'm an expert. However, I decided I should write down my advice, to...
A Smart Bear
Being who you are, while becoming better
We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means...
7 months ago
We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means striving to become better? What is "yourself?"
Computer Things
What if the spec doesn't match the code?
Whenever I talk about formal methods, I get the same question:
Can I use the spec to generate my...
10 months ago
Whenever I talk about formal methods, I get the same question:
Can I use the spec to generate my code?
People are worried about two things. One, that they'll make a mistake implementing the specification and have bugs. Two, that over time the implementation will "drift" and...
Josh Comeau's blog
What The Heck, z-index??
The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the...
over a year ago
The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the number, the element never rises to the top! In this article, we explore stacking contexts, and see how they can thwart our efforts to use z-index. We'll also learn how to use this...
Seán Barry
Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript
The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific...
over a year ago
The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific pattern, but I use it in almost every single project.
Darek Kay
Npm vs. Yarn: Dependency resolution
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some...
over a year ago
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some differences in how package managers resolve dependencies, which might lead to inconsistencies between different environments.
In this post I will present the behavior of npm 7.15.1 and Yarn...
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Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 1
Livecoding my own Dev.to CMS with Next.js + Preact + TypeScript + Tailwind UI
over a year ago
Livecoding my own Dev.to CMS with Next.js + Preact + TypeScript + Tailwind UI
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy
The 'API Economy' is a popular term for VC's and tech media, however Developers seem ironically out...
over a year ago
The 'API Economy' is a popular term for VC's and tech media, however Developers seem ironically out of the loop despite their central importance to the whole story. Here's my explanation, together with a dash of economics and social implications.
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...
David Heinemeier...
Finding acoustical delight in THE THOCK
Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I...
5 months ago
Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I soon learned that it describes one of those strangely seductive sounds you can produce from pressing the keys on a keyboard tuned for acoustical joy. And now, dammit, I've...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Logic programming in C++
When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one...
over a year ago
When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one is the invisible Prolog. If written properly, the second program is helpful. However, if being neglected, it turns your code into an untangleable mess of incomprehencibles...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, November 2024
The Ware for November 2024 is shown below. Click on any image for a larger version. I have a policy...
a month ago
The Ware for November 2024 is shown below. Click on any image for a larger version. I have a policy of never using one of my own projects for name that ware. But, sometimes I see another person’s project in the wild and it is just too cool not to share! I came across this […]
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Hello, I am making a modern fullstack JS tutorial livestream. What questions do you have for me?
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over a year ago
HTMHell
You don’t need the isOpen class
by Maureen Holland
Don’t get me wrong. You can keep it if you like it. But you don’t need it.
A...
a month ago
by Maureen Holland
Don’t get me wrong. You can keep it if you like it. But you don’t need it.
A class selector can allow us to visually show or hide content for disclosure widgets, like a custom select component or dropdown navigation menu. But a disclosure widget is made of two...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support
Lots of exciting new features have been landing in CSS recently, and it can be tough trying to...
a month ago
Lots of exciting new features have been landing in CSS recently, and it can be tough trying to figure out if they’re safe to use or not. We might know that a feature is available for 92% of users, but is that sufficient? Where do we draw the line? In this blog post, I’ll share...
Civic Hax
Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization
Intro
Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking...
over a year ago
Intro
Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking tickets in Chicago, but because I've spent so much time on the overall project, I figured I'd share the story that got me to this point. In many ways, this work is the foundation...
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.
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
TokyoDev
Remote Worker Rights In Japan
Are you working remotely for a Japanese company? What happens if your company suddenly issues a...
a month ago
Are you working remotely for a Japanese company? What happens if your company suddenly issues a return-to-office mandate?
Will you have to move back to Tokyo? What if remote work is in your contract—do you have the right to refuse to return to the office? What standing do you...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Things I Like Over Things I Don’t
It was another typical day on the internet: somebody did something, it felt like a big deal to me,...
a year ago
It was another typical day on the internet: somebody did something, it felt like a big deal to me, and I wanted to blog about why I didn’t like it.
To vent, I sent Dave a private message — well a couple of them — detailing my frustrations.
Looking back, I don’t remember what I...
charity.wtf
Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes
You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management...
a year ago
You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management you’ve endured and witnessed in tech, and you are god damn determined not to repeat all of those mistakes. You are tired of reporting to a manager who isn’t transparent with you, who...
Making software...
Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup
Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup
2020-08-16
I don't like the idea of throwing away old or outdated tech...
over a year ago
Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup
2020-08-16
I don't like the idea of throwing away old or outdated tech (within reason), so I try to find a new purpose for some of my "retired" devices. This article will cover how to switch over a mid-2011 model MacBook Air to utilize Linux...
bt RSS Feed
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2020-01-07
This blog post was written, edited and tested...
over a year ago
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2020-01-07
This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
Stephen Wolfram...
Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…
The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a...
a year ago
The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a human could do. But then ChatGPT burst onto the scene. And suddenly we realized that an AI could write a passable human-like essay. So now it’s natural to wonder: How far will this...
Joel Gascoigne
50 books that transformed my business and my life
As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books
completely. I even remember...
over a year ago
As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books
completely. I even remember a time where I couldn't imagine reading books at
all. After I graduated and started to be interested in business and startups, I
realized the immense power and knowledge contained...
HTMHell
Getting Oriented with HTML Video
by Scott Jehl
A couple years back, I was in a window seat on a flight from Amsterdam to New York....
a month ago
by Scott Jehl
A couple years back, I was in a window seat on a flight from Amsterdam to New York. The weather was gray and drizzly as the plane took off, but as it punched through the clouds a very different scene revealed itself. Out my window, it looked like a Maxfield Parrish...
bt RSS Feed
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
2019-06-14
When designing medium to large sized menu...
over a year ago
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
2019-06-14
When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
alexwlchan
Turning off ECS tasks overnight using an EventBridge Schedule
At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to.
For example,...
a year ago
At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to.
For example, we have a staging version of our website, where we test new changes before they’re deployed to the live site.
We’re only making changes during UK office hours, so running the...
macwright.com
Obsidian Freeform
Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube.
Obsidian...
7 months ago
Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube.
Obsidian Freeform is an extremely
small Obsidian plugin that enables totally custom
JavaScript-powered frames alongside your notes. I created it because I use
Obsidian as my note-taking...
Liz Denys
Impostor syndrome, an ancient arcane magic
Dealing with impostor syndrome isn't fun, but playing Dungeons & Dragons is! Here's a quick little...
over a year ago
Dealing with impostor syndrome isn't fun, but playing Dungeons & Dragons is! Here's a quick little 5e spell combining the two:
Impostor syndrome
5th-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You create an...
Maggie Appleton
Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams
The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web
over a year ago
The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web
Joel Gascoigne
Why I'm helping startup founders
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over a year ago
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Last month I wrote about my discovery that helping others makes me happier
[https://joel.is/post/26003263041/want-to-be-happy-and-successful-bring-happiness-to]
than spending the time seeing a...
alexwlchan
The maths cross-stitch that hangs behind me
I was chatting to a new colleague last week, and she asked about the picture that hangs behind me...
over a year ago
I was chatting to a new colleague last week, and she asked about the picture that hangs behind me when I’m on video calls – which made me realise I’ve never posted about it here.
It’s a rather nice piece that I’m quite pleased with, and it’s worth sharing.
Most of my...
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”...
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Array 1.31.0
PostHog 1.31.0 introduces Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped overall user...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.31.0 introduces Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped overall user experience on Insights and 350+ more improvements and fixes.
Alex Meub
The Magic of Solving Problems with 3D Printing
3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to...
a month ago
3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to create products that provide real value, products that didn’t exist before I designed them. On top of that, it’s satisfied my desire to ship products, even if the end-user is just...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Custom Elements, At Minimum, Only Need End With a Hyphen
Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid...
7 months ago
Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid custom element tag.
The spec says you can have custom elements with emojis in them. For example:
<emotion-😍></emotion-😍>
But for some reason the Codepen where I tested this wasn’t...
ntietz.com blog
Reasons to write design docs
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English.
It's half...
4 months ago
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English.
It's half true, though, since my job is as much about people and communciation as it is about technology.
Probably more, actually.
Writing is useful at all levels of software engineering.
It's...
markround.com
Disqus - An Apology
Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a...
7 months ago
Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a proper keyboard warrior rant accusing me of all sorts of misdeads revolving around “forcing ads down people’s throats”. I replied saying that there had never been any ads on this...
Tinker, Tamper,...
Docker Deployment Best Practices
Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use...
5 months ago
Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use self-hosted gitlab.Goal: Both initial and subsequent automated deployments to different environments (staging and production). Rejected ApproachesMost existing blog articles and...
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Array 1.27.0
PostHog 1.27.0 is here! Completely redesigned funnels experience will help you dive deeper to...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.27.0 is here! Completely redesigned funnels experience will help you dive deeper to understand why your users aren't converting. Plus 400+ improvements & fixes.
Marco.org
Overcast summer update
Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features.
But first, I need to set low...
over a year ago
Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features.
But first, I need to set low expectations for iOS 13, watchOS 6, and macOS Catalina updates this fall. Halfway through the summer, I’ve made much less progress than expected, having been overwhelmed by the required...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Making sense of TypeScript using set theory
I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to...
over a year ago
I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to my despair, some low-level behaviors still confuse me:
Why does 0 | 1 extends 0 ? true : false evaluate to false?
I'm very ashamed, but I sometimes confuse "subtype" and...
Blog System/5
Links: December 2023 edition
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
a year ago
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
Irrational...
Make an effective executive LinkedIn profile.
tl;dr - it’s valuable to update your LinkedIn profile to be a concise, accurate, and current summary...
over a year ago
tl;dr - it’s valuable to update your LinkedIn profile to be a concise, accurate, and current summary of your accomplishment. Spend at most two hours updating it, then ask a friend (ideally a recruiter) for feedback. Incorporate that feedback and don’t think about your profile...
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10 Principles I Learned from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain
10 Principles I Learned
over a year ago
Neil Panchal
Teaching how to code is broken
Typically:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control...
over a year ago
Typically:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control structures
Chapter 5: Arrays
Chapter 6: Functions
Chapter 7: Structs
Chapter 8: Classes and Objects
Chapter 9: Methods
Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism
Chapter 11: Some advanced...
Words and Buttons...
Lagrange polynomial as a gateway drug to basis splines
This explains Lagrange polynomial: why does it run through all the points, what is the basis...
over a year ago
This explains Lagrange polynomial: why does it run through all the points, what is the basis polynomial, and how come it's a polynomial in the first place.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.0.0
This is the first of (what we hope are many) PostHog weekly roundup posts. We want to let the...
over a year ago
This is the first of (what we hope are many) PostHog weekly roundup posts. We want to let the community know what we have been up to, a few of our…
Paolo Amoroso's...
The Boot Sector Games book series
<![CDATA[The short ebooks on Intel 8086 Assembly programming Oscar Toledo self published are some of...
a year ago
<![CDATA[The short ebooks on Intel 8086 Assembly programming Oscar Toledo self published are some of the best 8086 resources I've seen.
After introducing the 8086 instruction set and Assembly, Programming Boot Sector Games describes the source code of several games each of which...
Maggie Appleton
The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web
An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
over a year ago
An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
David Heinemeier...
Apple approves the HEY Calendar
I’ll admit it was a bit cheeky to make our new HEY Calendar app “do something” by including Apple’s...
a year ago
I’ll admit it was a bit cheeky to make our new HEY Calendar app “do something” by including Apple’s own history as a preview for people who don’t have an account. And I didn’t give the gambit better than 30% odds of succeeding, but lo and behold, it did! Apple has approved our...
The Changelog
Rehabilitating Asynchronous Communication with NNCP: A Cross Between Tor, ssh, and UUCP
Have you ever been traveling, shot a ton of photos and videos, but were annoyed to find it was...
over a year ago
Have you ever been traveling, shot a ton of photos and videos, but were annoyed to find it was saturating the terrible wifi you had access to? Maybe you’d wish the upload to pause until you get somewhere else, but then pausing syncing on your Nextcloud/Syncthing/Dropbox would...
A Beautiful Site
$.postJSON() for jQuery
$.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response....
over a year ago
$.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response. Alas, the jQuery documentation lacks a sister function that should be named $.postJSON(). Why not just use $.getJSON() and be done with it? Well, perhaps you want to send a large...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Early experience with Medley on the Raspberry Pi 400
<![CDATA[Medley is the first Lisp system I experimented with on my new Raspberry Pi 400, here is the...
a year ago
<![CDATA[Medley is the first Lisp system I experimented with on my new Raspberry Pi 400, here is the AArch64 version on the Raspberry Pi OS desktop:
SDL version of Medley Interlisp on a Raspberry Pi 400 under Raspberry Pi OS.
The online version of Medley runs well and smoothly...
alexwlchan
Getting an Important Internet Checkmark to follow your cursor
Are you an Important Brand?
Do you have an Internet Presence?
Do you worry about being Impersonated...
over a year ago
Are you an Important Brand?
Do you have an Internet Presence?
Do you worry about being Impersonated Or Parodied Online?
Then I may have something for you.
On your social media, you can bask in the warmth of an Important Internet Checkmark which tells your users that they’re...
Elad Blog
Clubhouse: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 1)
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...
Vadim Kravcenko
Software Development is very subjective
Most of you are familiar with the feeling of joining a new company and have that urge to rewrite...
over a year ago
Most of you are familiar with the feeling of joining a new company and have that urge to rewrite everything. […]
The post Software Development is very subjective appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
ntietz.com blog
What's hidden behind "just implementation details"
Something I hear occasionally from some software people1 is something along the lines of: "Well, the...
7 months ago
Something I hear occasionally from some software people1 is something along the lines of: "Well, the hard part is figured out, and the rest is just implementation details."
This typically means they've created an algorithm to do something, and the rest of it is all the supporting...
A Smart Bear
The Impossible Product Manager, a.k.a. the "Great" Product Manager
According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but...
over a year ago
According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but don’t worry, there’s a better answer.
dthompson
Issues with object-oriented programming in Guile
Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but
really it is a multi-paradigm...
over a year ago
Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but
really it is a multi-paradigm language, including object-oriented
programming. My Scheme of choice for the past decade has been
Guile. It comes with support for OOP via
GOOPS: The Guile Object Oriented...
Don Melton
A metastasis in America
America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange...
over a year ago
America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange tumor in the White House next week will not be enough to affect a cure.
The malignancy has spread. It didn’t even start with the presidency. We’ve been brewing and self-dosing a...
Liz Denys
The shape is everything: sun-dried tomato and pesto pane bianco
I've been getting into baking bread a lot lately instead of focusing more on the sweet and pastry...
over a year ago
I've been getting into baking bread a lot lately instead of focusing more on the sweet and pastry side of things. While I've been enjoying making fresh sourdough from fresh sourdough starter and love the end results, I sometimes find that basic breads are a lot of kneading (read:...
A Smart Bear
Failure to face the truth
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across...
over a year ago
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across decades of time. When something is so consistent, it must be wisdom.
the jsomers.net blog
The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering
In 1963, the philosopher Edmund Gettier published a three-page paper in the journal Analysis that...
over a year ago
In 1963, the philosopher Edmund Gettier published a three-page paper in the journal Analysis that quickly became a classic in the field. Epistemologists going back to the Greeks had debated what it meant to know something, and in the Enlightenment, a definition was settled upon:...
Eric Bailey
Free idea: design token ugly mode
A lot of work goes into making every page and view of a website or webapp look consistent with every...
6 months ago
A lot of work goes into making every page and view of a website or webapp look consistent with every other page or view. It’s just good design.
Smaller, newer experiences tend to be more uniform than not. This makes sense in that the bulk of the experience is created at the same...
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...
Liz Denys
A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Library Blanket
When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love....
over a year ago
When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love. The marled combinations of oranges, pinks, blues, and purples were calling to me, so I ordered a kit right away. Other knitters commented that while they loved the pattern, the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.29.0
Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New...
over a year ago
Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New features include multivariate feature flags, private projects and DAU/WAU/MAU graphs.
Alex Meub
A Great Bumper Sticker
I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago...
over a year ago
I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago and I couldn’t stop laughing:
It’s of course making fun of the Earth Stickers that are so common everywhere (especially in Portland):
If you’re curious, the original sticker was...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Avoiding Flash of Unthemed Code
If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before...
over a year ago
If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before JavaScript loads. Here is the solution.
alexwlchan
Hyperfocus and hobbies →
One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it...
a year ago
One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it affects my cross-stitch.
I’m really proud of this one, and I hope you’ll consider reading.
Writing for Stories was one of my “bucket list” items while working at Wellcome, and I...
Blog System/5
Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD
In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the...
9 months ago
In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the ST7735s 1.44" LCD, which sports a resolution of 128x128 pixels, a D-pad, and 3 other buttons. I will cover the prerequisite work to make the port possible, dig into the GPIO and SPI...
Alex MacCaw
The Stars
Technology's ability to improve lives and alleviate suffering is undeniable. It has swept through...
a year ago
Technology's ability to improve lives and alleviate suffering is undeniable. It has swept through our lives like a tidal wave, lifting us from the depths of ignorance and suffering. It continues to reshape the world and grants us access to tools and knowledge previously...
beep.blog
.io considered harmful
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their...
a year ago
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
Identity Designed
BERA
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
over a year ago
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Favorite Podcasts
250 Podcasts I enjoy listening to
over a year ago
250 Podcasts I enjoy listening to
Making software...
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
2018-10-18
I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
over a year ago
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
2018-10-18
I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website.
Nowadays companies and...
Eric Bailey
What they don’t tell you when you translate your app
Forget inverting binary trees, translating or localizing a digital experience is one of the most...
over a year ago
Forget inverting binary trees, translating or localizing a digital experience is one of the most difficult things you can do with software.
There’s plenty of content out there about how to perform the basic design and development aspects of translation and localization work....
Confessions of a...
What Happens When Python Starts Up? CPython Runtime Internals
CPython JIT Internals, Part 1: What is the Runtime and How is it initialized?
9 months ago
CPython JIT Internals, Part 1: What is the Runtime and How is it initialized?
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.34.0
PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for projects, smart names for all insights, an entire Data Management tool as well as support for horizontal scalability!
alexwlchan
Saving your alt text from Twitter
It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of...
over a year ago
It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of their archive in case the site goes down unexpectedly.
But large as it is, the archive doesn’t contain everything:
Kate
@thingskatedid
my twitter archive...
General Robots
Programming Robots: Keeping the Code Clean
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 8. Learn why the world is a giant hairy ball of unobservable...
a year ago
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 8. Learn why the world is a giant hairy ball of unobservable global state, how to log everything, and how to write robot code that doesn't make you gouge your eyes out when you look at it three days later.
ntietz.com blog -...
Using Talon in a game jam
I use Talon to control my computer some of the time.
It's mostly voice control, but it has so many...
2 months ago
I use Talon to control my computer some of the time.
It's mostly voice control, but it has so many other controls built in!
One lets you use an eye tracker as a mouse.
I thought this sounded like a neat interaction for other situations too.
When I mentioned this to a friend, he...
Vadim Kravcenko
🌈 Hedonic Treadmill
I’m sure you’re like me. It happens time and time again that we pour our hearts into achieving...
over a year ago
I’m sure you’re like me. It happens time and time again that we pour our hearts into achieving something we […]
The post 🌈 Hedonic Treadmill appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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...
David Heinemeier...
We need a Right To Compute
The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If...
12 months ago
The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If it’s a computer, we ought to have the right to compute. Like consumers have won the right to repair. If it’s a computer, it ought to be yours, and you ought to have the right to...
Making software...
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
2020-05-06
I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
over a year ago
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
2020-05-06
I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages:
libnettle6
libhogweed4
After...
David Heinemeier...
The reality of the Danish fairytale
Denmark has long ranked high on the list of societies that American liberals dream about turning the...
a year ago
Denmark has long ranked high on the list of societies that American liberals dream about turning the United States into. And for many good reasons. Education is state-funded, and students are even paid a stipend to go to university. Health care is equally free of individual...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
My eclipse photography plan
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2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original)
In 2017, I...
9 months ago
.title {text-wrap:balance;}
2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original)
In 2017, I opted to skip the crowds and the drive and settle for a
94% solar eclipse. I fully regret that decision.
Weather permitting, I’ll be photographing the full solar eclipse from
the path...
Tony Finch's blog
Concurrent qp-trie performance numbers
Previously, I wrote about implementing safe memory reclamation for my
qp-trie code in BIND. I have...
a year ago
Previously, I wrote about implementing safe memory reclamation for my
qp-trie code in BIND. I have now got it working with a
refactored qp-trie that has been changed to support asynchronous
memory reclamation - working to the point where I can run some
benchmarks to compare the...
Remains of the Day
My Pandemic Zoom Setup
Now that everyone is spending many of their waking hours in Zoom, a lot of people are laughing at,...
over a year ago
Now that everyone is spending many of their waking hours in Zoom, a lot of people are laughing at, and then asking me about, my Zoom setup. It’s actually not all that elaborate. I know many people with much more elaborate setups. Still, for a simple upgrade to the mic and camera...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Fourteen years
Fourteen years
It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my...
a month ago
Fourteen years
It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my apartment in Birmingham, in the UK. The launch came seven weeks after I started working on the project on the side as a contract web developer. For a few weeks, I called it bfffr...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: quantum computer emulator in SQL
Last year, my good friend and colleague Matt Ward challenged me to implement a quantum computer...
over a year ago
Last year, my good friend and colleague Matt Ward challenged me to implement a quantum computer emulator in SQL. Challenge accepted! This year we will be building an SQL query which will emulate a quantum computer. This query will process quantum assembly, build the circuit, run...
ntietz.com blog
[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier
I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at...
over a year ago
I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at first -- I'm a big fan of Schneier's posts online, but I found this randomly at the library and I was hoping not to be disappointed. In the end, it was well worth the read.
The book...
Irrational...
A bit late, but I did leave Calm.
I meant to post this when I left Calm earlier this year, as a ending note to my post on joining...
a year ago
I meant to post this when I left Calm earlier this year, as a ending note to my post on joining Calm, but instead I got focused on joining Carta and writing An Engineering Executive’s Primer. I’m cleaning out some of my old drafts, and posting this as an artifact of that moment....
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 events all teams should track with PostHog
It can be tricky to know which events you should start tracking first if you haven’t used product...
over a year ago
It can be tricky to know which events you should start tracking first if you haven’t used product analytics before. That’s why we recommend using…
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Mixpanel
Want to know how PostHog and Mixpanel are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these...
over a year ago
Want to know how PostHog and Mixpanel are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two points: Mixpanel is a product analytics tool…
Elad Blog
Early days of AI
Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it...
a year ago
Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it is worth thinking of this as an entirely new era and discontinuity from the past
Eric Bailey
To subset or not subset fonts
One of the niche things you can do to improve the performance on your website or web app is to...
over a year ago
One of the niche things you can do to improve the performance on your website or web app is to subset your fonts.
If you are not familiar, subsetting is the act of removing glyphs and other associated information from a font file. You can cherrypick individual glyphs, as well as...
Josh Collinsworth
Profit is Not a Value
Any executive or business owner will say their company values integrity, and virtually every company...
over a year ago
Any executive or business owner will say their company values integrity, and virtually every company claims that they reward and value their employees exhibiting their brand values. But is that really accurate?
On Test Automation
PNSQC 2024 - experience report
While most of the clients I work with are based in Europe, over the last couple of years my client...
3 months ago
While most of the clients I work with are based in Europe, over the last couple of years my client base on the North American side of the Atlantic has slowly but surely started to grow, mainly in the United States. As someone who really enjoys working with and learning from...
swyx's site RSS Feed
3 Reasons to Upgrade Git For The First Time Ever
Relatively new Git features that actually have me excited
over a year ago
Relatively new Git features that actually have me excited
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...
Irrational...
Building personal and organizational prestige
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
a year ago
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many...
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 348
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Who's lying?
Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because...
over a year ago
Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies.
Max Countryman
Value Modes and Mud Balls
In developing software products, we're often accustomed to prioritizing incremental delivery. This...
a year ago
In developing software products, we're often accustomed to prioritizing incremental delivery. This is usually a good way to mitigate the risk of working on the wrong thing. However, sometimes our problems don't fit neatly into accretive methodologies and we need to consider other...
The Changelog
Using dar for Data Archiving
This is the third post in a series about data archiving to removable media (optical discs and hard...
a year ago
This is the third post in a series about data archiving to removable media (optical discs and hard drives). In the first, I explained the difference between backing up and archiving, established goals for the project, and said I’d evaluate git-annex and dar. The second post...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Book Poll 2019
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this...
over a year ago
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this poll](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1168182079613485056):
HTMHell
Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API
by Schepp
Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed...
3 weeks ago
by Schepp
Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed significantly contributes to the overall user experience (UX), determining whether it feels positive or negative. To ensure the fastest possible page load times, it’s crucial to design...
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.
ntietz.com blog
Starting my (overkill) homelab
I've set up a homelab finally!
This is something I've wanted for a while and finally the timing was...
over a year ago
I've set up a homelab finally!
This is something I've wanted for a while and finally the timing was right.
The right project came along to justify it, so I took the plunge.
Naturally, that leads to a few questions:
What's a home lab?
Why do you want one?
And what is the shiny...
James Vaughan's blog
Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight
a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About
Innovations outside the AI spotlight
2 months ago
Innovations outside the AI spotlight
macwright.com
Playing with ActivityPub
ActivityPub, WebFinger,
and Mastodon
are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter.
It’s...
over a year ago
ActivityPub, WebFinger,
and Mastodon
are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter.
It’s anyone’s guess how this all shakes out. As an
active user of Twitter, it’ll be sad if it goes away.
But in the meantime, let’s have some fun with ActivityPub.
ActivityPub
Under the...
Basta’s Notes
Matt Basta: purveyor of fake news
A story about how I accidentally duped the Bay Area press in 2013
a year ago
A story about how I accidentally duped the Bay Area press in 2013
Joel Gascoigne
Snowmelt meetings
“When spring comes, snow melts first at the periphery, because that is where it is most exposed” -...
over a year ago
“When spring comes, snow melts first at the periphery, because that is where it is most exposed” - Andy Grove
This quote comes from Andy Grove, Intel’s former CEO, and which I was reminded of in the most recent book I finished reading, Seeing Around Corners
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: GPT in 500 lines of SQL
Translations: Russian This year, the talk of the town was AI and how it can do everything for you. I...
a year ago
Translations: Russian This year, the talk of the town was AI and how it can do everything for you. I like it when someone or something does everything for me. To this end, I decided to ask ChatGPT to write my New Year's post: "Hey ChatGPT. Can you implement a large language model...
Eric Bailey
Websites are like bridges
An incomplete list:
Most of them are made to make it easier for someone to get to where they want to...
a year ago
An incomplete list:
Most of them are made to make it easier for someone to get to where they want to go.
Some are purely utilitarian, a few are completely decorative, and most are a combination of both.
Some are built by governments, some are built by organizations, and some are...
alexwlchan
The Collected Works of Ian Flemingo
On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation...
a year ago
On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation Human Thermos”, a fan gathering to celebrate Operation Mincemeat, a musical that gives us all the warm and fuzzies.
A lot of people dressed in cosplay to mark the occasion, and I...
ntietz.com blog
My portable ergonomic setup
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms.
It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I...
7 months ago
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms.
It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I couldn't type, and at the worst I couldn't pick up our kids.
That episode spontaneously resolved after a couple of months, but flareups happen occasionally.
One guaranteed trigger...
Jake Zimmerman
Using my iPhone as a travel laptop
4 months ago
macwright.com
Recently
Busy month! In January, I wrote
about the first four Val Town runtimes, and built a lot of
features...
10 months ago
Busy month! In January, I wrote
about the first four Val Town runtimes, and built a lot of
features in Val Town.
I also hacked around enough to make
Placemark Play available
again, the “free-as-in-beer” Placemark UI. It still
has some warts, but it’s there. Want to improve...
TokyoDev
Bringing Your Pets to Japan
This is the post in forums that always makes me wince: “I’ve just been hired and am moving to Japan!...
6 months ago
This is the post in forums that always makes me wince: “I’ve just been hired and am moving to Japan! Can I bring my dog with me?”
The reason it causes me pain is that I know the poster is already too late. If they wanted to relocate to Japan with their dog, they needed to start...
Ruud van Asseldonk
AI alignment starter pack
7 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for
Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their...
a year ago
Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their typical approach is to look at the long list of admin…
Tinloof - Blog
How to Create a PWA Game using Preact in 5 steps (Tutorial)
In this article, we will create a Progressive Web Application! Don’t worry, we won’t make another...
over a year ago
In this article, we will create a Progressive Web Application! Don’t worry, we won’t make another todo list. Instead, we will build a fun game that satisfies Google’s checklist for building a PWA.
Final result
You can play it here and check the final source code on Github.
Joel Gascoigne
The different ways of traveling
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
One of the...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
One of the incredible side-effects of doing retreats 3 times a year with my
startup
[https://joel.is/post/79092725144/why-we-go-on-international-retreats-3-times-a-year-with]
is that I get the...
Maggie Appleton
A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases
The absolute minimum you need to know about data storage
over a year ago
The absolute minimum you need to know about data storage
Computer Things
A brief introduction to interval arithmetic
You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet,...
7 months ago
You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet, then you measure the couch and get 7 feet. Can you fit the couch against that wall?
Maybe. If the two measure is exactly 7 feet than sure, 7 ≤ 7. But you probably didn't line your...
Elad Blog
Things I Don't Know About AI
The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
11 months ago
The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
37signals Dev
Mission Control — Jobs
As promised back when we introduced Solid Queue, today we’ve open-sourced Mission Control — Jobs, a...
11 months ago
As promised back when we introduced Solid Queue, today we’ve open-sourced Mission Control — Jobs, a dashboard and set of extensions to operate and observe background jobs, that we’ve been using for over a year, in the beginning with Resque only, and later with both Resque and...
Kagi Blog
Taking web search through the last mile
(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog (...
over a year ago
(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog ( https://web.archive.org/web/20200927234617/https://kagi.ai/last-mile-for-web-search.html ) a few short years ago.
alexwlchan
What mammal is that?
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva.
I like to take...
a year ago
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva.
I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot:
No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held close to...
Alex Meub
A Pretty Good Entertainment Setup
My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a...
over a year ago
My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a Synology DiskStation DS213 NAS with 2x2TB RAID 0 configured drives. This is hands down the best NAS I’ve ever used. It’s super easy to set up and the interface is awesome (all...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How (and why) our marketing team uses PostHog
We learned an interesting fact recently: only 20% of our users track their marketing website and ...
over a year ago
We learned an interesting fact recently: only 20% of our users track their marketing website and their product using PostHog. This is our fault. We…
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Programmer's guide to polynomials and splines
This is a brief introduction into polynomials. From how to make a polynomial run through your set of...
over a year ago
This is a brief introduction into polynomials. From how to make a polynomial run through your set of points to how to make it into a spline.
David Heinemeier...
Is greed really seasonal?
As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing...
12 months ago
As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing their jobs after all, so that must mean someone is acting malevolent, dammit. This is when the age old accusation of greed is trotted out. Companies are only laying off people now...
A Beautiful Site
Democratizing publishing
One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is...
over a year ago
One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is excellent. But the very same article states another objective is to "capture the 75 percent of the internet that WordPress doesn't already manage."
In my opinion, these goals conflict...
markround.com
Haiku Package Management
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have...
a year ago
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason...
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Upgrading from Linux Mint 21.3 to 22: failure and success
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