Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - June 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter (a couple of weeks late!) about what I'm up to, which I send in place...
1st Jun 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter (a couple of weeks late!) about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in May - Summer weather has hit NYC - it's great to be back outside - Pu...
Sedimental
Managing Python Ecosystems
You know that old quote:
The wider the net you cast, the wider the variety you catch.
Was it a wise...
24th May 2016
You know that old quote:
The wider the net you cast, the wider the variety you catch.
Was it a wise old fisherman? Or a dogged Python programmer? Either
way, words don't come much truer than those.
Few, if any, programming languages have embodied the description
"general-purpose"...
Tom MacWright
Recently
Hello! Only a day late this time. October was another busy month but
it didn’t yield much content. I...
2nd Nov 2025
Hello! Only a day late this time. October was another busy month but
it didn’t yield much content. I ran a second half-marathon, this time
with much less training, but only finished a few minutes slower than I
did earlier this year. Next year I’m thinking about training at
a...
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How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022
We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of...
1st Nov 2022
We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of v2.3](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/2961)) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all. Googled and found [this...
A Smart Bear
JIT selection from independent streams: An alternative to the “big backlog” of work
We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of...
23rd Aug 2022
We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of the future, however this confuses “prioritization” with “work-planning,” and forces the comparison of un-comparable things. Here’s how to solve those problems.
Alice GG
How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS?
When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky...
6th Feb 2023
When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question.
On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waking up to an unexpected 100k$ bill from their provider.
But on the other hand, you will see providers advertising costs...
The Codist
Yet Another Post On Scrum, But Different
Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management.
I did as well, but a...
4th Jun 2024
Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management.
I did as well, but a difference is that I started my career in 1981, long before the hordes of Scrums took root.
1981, you say, so you must have done Waterfall, so you are old and have
Engineer’s Codex
Everyone is a Staff Engineer Now
Engineer’s Codex is a newsletter about real-world engineering.
22nd Dec 2025
Engineer’s Codex is a newsletter about real-world engineering.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++
How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog
Windows’s win32 API is old and...
10th Apr 2024
How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog
Windows’s win32 API is old and crufty. Many things that are trivial to do in HTML are difficult in win32.
One of those things is changing size of font used by your native, desktop app.
I encountered this in...
SOS
Search Huge JSON files on the Web
Working with very large JSON files (20MB+) using online tools tends to be a crashy affair. Whether...
16th Jun 2025
Working with very large JSON files (20MB+) using online tools tends to be a crashy affair. Whether you’re looking to format or search them, all the tools I found just crash. I found myself having to work with huge JSON files recently, so I built a tool specifically optimized for...
Ink & Switch
Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.
Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a...
8th Mar 2023
Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is changing.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
The things we do to ship desktop software
I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in...
1st May 2019
I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in under a second.
It might surprise you that I spent more time on things that are not related to core functionality. Let’s call it a tax of shipping desktop software.
Here are some of...
Explained from First...
The Internet explained from first principles
5th Aug 2020
James Vaughan's blog
How To Make HTTP Requests In Elm
12th Dec 2018
Jordan Eldredge's...
Barbershop Multitracks with Zane
I recorded two barbershop tags with my friend Zane Fiala.
29th Dec 2008
I recorded two barbershop tags with my friend Zane Fiala.
Joel Gascoigne
Firing myself, again
I've written in the past about how I see the role of a...
26th Jan 2014
I've written in the past about how I see the role of a CEO
[https://joel.is/post/42713179646/expert-of-nothing] to be one where you are
repeatedly firing yourself. Joe Kraus
[http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/28/first-fire-thyself/] brought my attention to
thinking about the role in...
Elad Blog
Why Has Israel Succeeded At COVID Vaccination?
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly...
14th Jan 2021
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly 1% of the entire population vaccinated per day and over 23% of the country vaccinated in the first few weeks. The country hopes to have the entire population over age 16
Basta’s Notes
A societal failure on all levels
A week in San Francisco
1st May 2026
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. October 2023
Happy All Hallow’s Eve. I hope you enjoy this month’s cover art. It might be my favorite so far.
1st Oct 2023
Happy All Hallow’s Eve. I hope you enjoy this month’s cover art. It might be my favorite so far.
TokyoDev
Being the CTO and on the Board of Directors
July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my...
a week ago
July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my original plan, but somehow I ended up here.
I came to fill in a high management role at an AI startup, and within a few years was appointed CTO, and then a member of the Board of...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - December 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Just got back from a holiday in Tokyo and Hakone. I explored Ametora, noodles (tsuk...
The History of the...
1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web
The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year.
The post 1995 Was...
8th Apr 2025
The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year.
The post 1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
home automation -...
On The End of Bitcoin
[This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date...
24th May 2022
[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...
Max Schmitt
Next.js: Page Transitions with Framer Motion
Read the post here.
2nd Mar 2023
Boot.dev Blog
The Two Classes of Software Engineer
“Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or...
5th Mar 2021
“Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or sometimes even simply test code. In reality, I think there are two classes of “software engineers”; those who understand computer science well enough to do challenging, innovative work,...
Buttondown's blog
March updates
We have lots of great new updates in store!
2nd Mar 2019
We have lots of great new updates in store!
Josh Collinsworth
I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind
Why I worry about the effect GitHub Copilot is having and will continue to have on the accessibility...
13th Feb 2024
Why I worry about the effect GitHub Copilot is having and will continue to have on the accessibility of the web at scale.
Nue developer blog
Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine
**Adam Wathan** explained in his [keynote speech](//youtu.be/CLkxRnRQtDE?t=109) at Tailwind Connect...
18th Feb 2024
**Adam Wathan** explained in his [keynote speech](//youtu.be/CLkxRnRQtDE?t=109) at Tailwind Connect 2023 how Tailwind CSS was born out of this sentence:
Kagi Blog
Kagi now accepts Paypal, EUR and Bitcoin (Lightning) payments
One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods...
31st Aug 2023
One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods so that more people can more easilly enjoy the benefits of Kagi Search.
Ruud van Asseldonk
AI alignment starter pack
9th Jun 2024
These Yaks Ain't...
How to Actually Integrate Angular and Nestjs
I don’t know who needs to hear this. But your frontend and backend systems don’t need to be...
15th Sep 2023
I don’t know who needs to hear this. But your frontend and backend systems don’t need to be completely separate.
I started anew side project recently. You know, one of things that allows me to tinker with new technology but will probably never be finished.
I’m using Angular for...
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Three Jobs of Containers
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
1st Mar 2020
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
Boot.dev Blog
Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production"
The podcast is available here.
Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show!...
9th Dec 2019
The podcast is available here.
Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show! In this episode of Running in Production, I talk with Nick about how we built boot.dev, an open-source password manager that specializes in cryptocurrency. Boot.dev uses Electron...
On Test Automation
The ‘valuable’ in valuable feedback, fast
When I talk about the goals and the purpose of test automation, I often use the phrase ‘valuable...
1st Apr 2026
When I talk about the goals and the purpose of test automation, I often use the phrase ‘valuable feedback, fast’: we use tools to support our testing to help us get valuable information about the state of our product in the most efficient manner possible.
The ‘fast’ part of...
Nelson's Weblog
Non-alcoholic apéritifs
I’ve been doing Dry January this year. One thing I missed was
something for apéro hour, a beverage...
31st Jan 2025
I’ve been doing Dry January this year. One thing I missed was
something for apéro hour, a beverage to mark the start of the evening.
Something complex and maybe bitter, not like a drink you’d have with
lunch. I found some good options.
Ghia sodas are my favorite. Ghia
is an NA...
Marco.org
Low Power Mode for Mac laptops: making the case again
In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite...
14th Jan 2020
In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite direction,1 I wanted to re-make the case for a Low Power Mode on macOS — and explain why now is the time.
Modern hardware constantly pushes thermal and power limits, trying to...
somenice
Autumnal equinox 2023
Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using...
24th Sep 2023
Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using Trapcode Particular.
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, February 2025
Here’s the Ware for February 2025: Thanks again to spida for contributing yet another guest ware!...
28th Feb 2025
Here’s the Ware for February 2025: Thanks again to spida for contributing yet another guest ware! Hopefully this one is a smidge easier to guess compared to last month’s.
General Robots
The Mythical Non-Roboticist
What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework...
14th Mar 2024
What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
David Crawshaw
Fast compilers for fast programs
Fast compilers for fast programs
Compiler author incentives
Aside: languages get caught in the...
14th Apr 2019
Fast compilers for fast programs
Compiler author incentives
Aside: languages get caught in the middle
The "medium-sized project" moment
2019-04-14
Compiler authors face a tradeoff between compiler speed and executable speed.
Take longer to build a binary and you can build a...
Buttondown's blog
The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails
Neither the first nor the fastest international connection, it was the one that lasted.
3rd Jul 2025
Neither the first nor the fastest international connection, it was the one that lasted.
Alex Meub
IE 6,7,8 Warning with removeChild
On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage...
14th Nov 2012
On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?”. This is a particularly obscure bug with IE that has caused me lots of grief. First of all, it is indeed a bug with IE. This behavior can be...
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...
4th Jul 2023
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...
somenice
Generative Fill or Degenerate Phil
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background...
1st Jul 2023
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background artists, web designers, print layout artists, or anybody who deals with incorrect aspect ratios or odd image dimentions will be thrilled by the output. The image below represents a...
TokyoDev
Service Introduction: Forkwell
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending...
2nd May 2012
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending out your resume to lots of companies and hoping for the best is clearly broken. Despite this, people all around the world, but especially in Japan, cling to it. So I got excited...
Sebastian Witowski
How to Enjoy Your Next Conference Better
Sometimes, when I go to a conference and mingle with people during lunch or a social event, I see...
3rd Jan 2024
Sometimes, when I go to a conference and mingle with people during lunch or a social event, I see someone sitting alone, looking at their phone, and not talking to anyone. At one social dinner, I saw a guy who spent one hour drinking two beers (everyone got them for free), ate...
Irrational...
Measuring an engineering organization.
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most...
2nd Jan 2023
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report...
Making software...
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator
2023-07-21
Often times when you save or export photos...
21st Jul 2023
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator
2023-07-21
Often times when you save or export photos from iOS to iCloud they often render themselves into heif or heic formats. Both macOS and iOS have no problem working with these formats, but a lot of software programs will not even...
Tinloof - Blog
Asynchronous JavaScript - what is it? (Promises, callbacks, async/await)
JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a...
30th Aug 2020
JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a time.
First, the code will execute the function and know what to return when getText() is called.
Then it assigns the getText() function to the variable text.
The Changelog
The Grumpy Cricket (And Other Enormous Creatures)
This Christmas, one of my gifts to my kids was a text adventure (interactive fiction) game for them....
25th Dec 2023
This Christmas, one of my gifts to my kids was a text adventure (interactive fiction) game for them. Now that they’ve enjoyed it, I’m releasing it under the GPL v3. As interactive fiction, it’s like an e-book, but the reader is also the player, guiding the exploration of the...
Don Melton
Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous...
25th Jun 2021
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous post:
On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same...
Alice GG
Stuff I've been working on
It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs.
Quite a...
7th Oct 2024
It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs.
Quite a few people who read this blog are wondering what the hell exactly I’ve been doing since then so I’m going to update all of you on the various projects I’ve been working on.
Meme...
Steve Klabnik
An introduction to economics under capitalism
10th Mar 2015
Ink & Switch
Ink Note April 2023: Ploma Rendering Experiments
Prototyping a few uses of dynamic ink using Dan Amelang and Evelyn Eastmond’s Ploma as the renderer.
7th Apr 2023
Prototyping a few uses of dynamic ink using Dan Amelang and Evelyn Eastmond’s Ploma as the renderer.
orlp.net - Blog...
Magical Fibonacci Formulae
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci
sequence, without loops,
recursion or floating...
6th Feb 2023
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci
sequence, without loops,
recursion or floating point arithmetic:
f=lambda n:(b:=2<<n)**n*b//(b*b-b-1)%b
It really does:
>>> [f(n) for n in range(10)]
[0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34]
How does it work? As a teaser, look at...
seated.ro
a weekend love story - raylib/zig
raylib-zig-emscripten
Zig Psyop
Before this weekend, I was a plebeian who used JavaScript for 80%...
15th Aug 2024
raylib-zig-emscripten
Zig Psyop
Before this weekend, I was a plebeian who used JavaScript for 80% of my tasks. Now I am an esoteric plebeian who has used zig once. Anyway, I decided to give zig a shot and try to build a game with it. There was really only two libraries I wanted...
Cognitive...
The Demonization of DeepSeek
NIST’s September 30 report on DeepSeek not about security, it’s about control. I am here to tell you...
4th Oct 2025
NIST’s September 30 report on DeepSeek not about security, it’s about control. I am here to tell you what the man behind the curtain doesn’t want you to pay any attention to.
NIST's DeepSeek "Evaluation" is a Hit Piece
NIST’s recent report on DeepSee...
Steve Klabnik
The language strangeness budget
26th Jun 2015
Elad Blog
Biotech companies I wish existed
While one off companies may exist, I am surprised there is not more biotech activity in these areas
20th May 2025
While one off companies may exist, I am surprised there is not more biotech activity in these areas
wingolog
whippet lab notebook: on untagged mallocs
Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress
than usual; I have been...
4th Mar 2025
Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress
than usual; I have been finally starting to look at getting
into
, and there are some open questions.WhippetGuile
I started by taking a look at how Guile uses the ‘s API, to make sure I had all
my bases...
the jsomers.net blog
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's...
26th Jul 2015
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time...
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Cool Facts about Cuttlefish
This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short...
15th Jan 2019
This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short lightning talk on any topic we wished. I picked cuttles. I actually saw one in real life diving in Fiji once!
TokyoDev
Proof Bitcoin is Overhyped
BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin...
9th Jul 2014
BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin transactions per day](https://blockchain.info/en/charts/n-transactions), I was flabbergasted: **there are only about 60,000 transactions per day.** I graphed the number relative to [the...
Words and Buttons...
Why learn about the golden-section search
An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a...
29th Jun 2025
An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a motivation to learn them both. Spoiler alert! One converges better, and the other has a better computational cost.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Trying to Make Sense of Casing Conventions on the Web
(I present to you my stream of consciousness on the topic of casing as it applies to the web...
4th Sep 2025
(I present to you my stream of consciousness on the topic of casing as it applies to the web platform.)
I’m reading about the new command and commandfor attributes — which I’m super excited about, declarative behavior invocation in HTML? YES PLEASE!! — and one thing that strikes...
The Web Witch's Blog
Pre-Partner
Early yesterday morning, on the second day of Blink On, I received the news that I had officially...
9th Apr 2025
Early yesterday morning, on the second day of Blink On, I received the news that I had officially moved from Staff level to Pre-Partner at Igalia. This largely means that I now participate in decision-making with the rest of those Igalians who are pre-partners and partners.
I...
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Networking Essentials: Congestion Control
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical...
7th Oct 2018
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical streaming applications like Youtube and Skype?
Sometimes It Works...
Smile
Smile
Be thankful
Resist the pressure to own things
Be good to yourself, but no more than...
11th Sep 2018
Smile
Be thankful
Resist the pressure to own things
Be good to yourself, but no more than necessary
Be a friend
Reflect; don’t regret
Fail, learn, repeat
Stop. Think. Speak
Exercise your mind, your body, and your soul
Work hard
Be true
Respect others
Value life
Give openly
Love...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - October 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Oct 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Spent Labor Day in Boulder - Went to Alchemy Springs Sauna in SF- I'm happy to see...
Steve Klabnik
So, what happened to my Claude Code series?
I started off this year writing a lot, and wanted to keep up the pace. I did good at first! And...
2 weeks ago
I started off this year writing a lot, and wanted to keep up the pace. I did good at first! And then… I didn’t manage to. In some ways, this is because I have just been super busy! I’ve never had less free time, and I’m okay with that. There’s a tremendous amount of good things…
A Beautiful Site
A Web Component Story
Gather 'round, it's story time.
A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a...
30th Sep 2022
Gather 'round, it's story time.
A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a component library for their design system. The one they were replacing was built with AngularJS, but AngularJS was old and rickety and nobody wanted to use it anymore. Plus, many teams...
Irrational...
2022 in review.
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual...
13th Dec 2022
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual reflection where my first thoughts are happy rather than bleak.
The truth is that there is a lot of bleak out there right now–just look at the layoffs and the funding environment–but...
Contraption Co.
Rethinking work beyond the factory
I recently completed a two-week creative residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I split my time on...
27th Feb 2024
I recently completed a two-week creative residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I split my time on the trip between working on Booklet and exploring Japan.
The Almost Perfect residence runs continuously, with two residents at a time. Each residency concludes with a public gallery...
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
5th Apr 2021
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
Some Bits: Nelson's...
Dinosaur Kingdom II
A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army
2 weeks ago
A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army
Steve Klabnik
GitHub is anarchy for programmers
1st Oct 2011
Maggie Appleton
Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes
Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
16th Apr 2020
Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
TokyoDev
Tokyo Ruby Kaigi 05
[Tokyo Ruby Kaigi...
Eric Migicovsky's...
After the HN launch
PostHog launched on Hacker News . We were pleased with the reception. The reason we launched wasn’t...
1st Mar 2020
PostHog launched on Hacker News . We were pleased with the reception. The reason we launched wasn’t trying to get the world’s attention – we wanted to…
Seán Barry
Using Git Bisect to Find Code Regressions
Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool...
21st Mar 2021
Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool for the job.
Maggie Appleton
What the Fork is the React Virtual DOM
Illustrated notes on how the React virtual DOM works
20th Jan 2019
Illustrated notes on how the React virtual DOM works
The Web Witch's Blog
A random man walks into my office and asks if I'm single...
It's almost a joke now, how I expect comments from men on my videos for work. When I go to check the...
14th Nov 2021
It's almost a joke now, how I expect comments from men on my videos for work. When I go to check the comments, because I genuinely care about feedback or asks from developers, my heart sinks and my stomach drops when I see comments about my appearance or inquiries about my...
Charles Petzold
Protests Then and Now
When a government engages in deviant behavior, it is the responsibility of the people to express...
24th Mar 2026
When a government engages in deviant behavior, it is the responsibility of the people to express their opposition. That’s why I’ll be participating in the No Kings protest in New York City on Saturday. ... more ...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - October 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Oct 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - I've started publishing on Contraption Company every Friday. My posts last month: I...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Multitrack Video: "In My Room"
On New Years Day some friends and I recorded a multitrack video of The Beach Boys' song 'In My...
4th Jan 2010
On New Years Day some friends and I recorded a multitrack video of The Beach Boys' song 'In My Room'.
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...
5th Oct 2020
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.
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Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
2022-09-02
I’ve recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as...
2nd Sep 2022
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
2022-09-02
I’ve recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as my daily operating system. So far, it has been going fairly well. Nothing will probably ever feel as “optimized” as running a Linux-based system but it works well for my current...
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Proper UI Hierarchy
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
5th Feb 2019
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it’s core seems so simple - yet is...
Miguel Carranza
Full Circle
I’m back in Spain for my brother’s wedding. I rarely visit during the summer. The heat in my...
28th Aug 2024
I’m back in Spain for my brother’s wedding. I rarely visit during the summer. The heat in my hometown is brutal, around 40 degrees Celsius (over 100 Fahrenheit for my imperial friends). Most people escape to the coast, just like my family did when I was a kid. I haven’t been here...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Book Review: The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin
"Ahra", the Eaten One, the high priestess of the Tombs of Atuan
belongs to the Nameless Ones. She...
8th Oct 2016
"Ahra", the Eaten One, the high priestess of the Tombs of Atuan
belongs to the Nameless Ones. She is, herself, nameless. Her name along
with her family and future were taken from her in a ceremony on which
the novel opens. At the beginning of the novel, her 6-year-old life...
Words and Buttons...
Arctangent scale. It's like the logarithmic scale but infinite
With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it...
9th May 2020
With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it but the whole function.
Quentin Santos
Arduino’s Automatic Reset
As mentioned in my previous article, I am planning to publish a long-form article on UART. I am...
1st May 2025
As mentioned in my previous article, I am planning to publish a long-form article on UART. I am doing a series of shorter articles to lay the groundwork. This is one of these “short” articles; this one about how Arduino uses UART. Of course, I still went way too deep in this...
Alex MacCaw
AGI, agents, and timelines
AGI is coming—whether we’re ready or not. I’ve been convinced of this trajectory since GPT-3’s...
6th Feb 2025
AGI is coming—whether we’re ready or not. I’ve been convinced of this trajectory since GPT-3’s release, but recent developments have significantly accelerated my timelines.
The first major shift was OpenAI’s breakthrough in test-time compute and its newly demonstrated scaling...
Basta’s Notes
AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
8th Jul 2026
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
the singularity is...
The Elon Swing Voter
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
6th Dec 2024
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
David Heinemeier...
What you know that just ain't so
The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower...
5th Nov 2024
The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower or leave it alone? Should we chase these customers over here or those customers over there? Should we add more features or polish the ones we have? There's endless variation in...
Tony Finch's blog
semaphoreslo in Golang and GNU make
Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in
computing, invented over 60 years ago....
18th Jul 2024
Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in
computing, invented over 60 years ago. They are weird: usually the
only numbers of concurrent processes we care about are zero, one, or
many – but semaphores deal with those fussy finite numbers in
between.
Yesterday I...
A Beautiful Site
Success Requires Luck
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and...
14th Jan 2022
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and vision don't play a role in success, but nobody — literally nobody — can guarantee that a product or service will be successful. Think about some of the major corporations that...
sancho.dev
OCaml documentation as markdown
Turn your OCaml API documentation into publishable Markdown
3rd Mar 2026
Turn your OCaml API documentation into publishable Markdown
Seldo.com
There's no such thing as the fundamentals of web development
19th Mar 2023
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey
The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
12th Oct 2022
The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
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Using HTML Validator Badges Again
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-07-05
There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
5th Jul 2019
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-07-05
There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren’t great (and still aren’t perfect) but they represented a...
Josh Comeau's blog
Making Sense of React Server Components
This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official...
6th Sep 2023
This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official way to run React components exclusively on the server. This is a significant paradigm shift, and it's caused a whole lot of confusion in the React community. In this tutorial,...
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Handling State & User Interactions In UI Applications
An early thinking about handling your app or component state can help you to avoid many bugs even...
5th Feb 2021
An early thinking about handling your app or component state can help you to avoid many bugs even before starting to write code.
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - January 2023
✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a...
1st Jan 2023
✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a couple of flights canceled by Southwest - Published "Why I built Postcard: A calmer alternative to s...
Josh Comeau's blog
Squash and Stretch
Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore...
13th Apr 2026
Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore how we can use the very first principle to create SVG micro-interactions that feel way more natural and believable. It’s one of those small things that has a big impact.
Ink & Switch
10 · Beyond prose
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
3rd Apr 2024
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
alexwlchan
Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos...
15th Oct 2023
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos Library.
I don’t really want to pay for the next iCloud storage tier – I’d be tripling my bill, but I’d barely use the extra space.
(My library grows pretty slowly – I’ve only added ~6GB of...
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: Can Engineering Productivity Be Measured?
I follow you on Twitter and read your blog. I particularly enjoy this...
7th Jul 2020
I follow you on Twitter and read your blog. I particularly enjoy this post: https://charity.wtf/2019/05/01/friday-deploy-freezes-are-exactly-like-murdering-puppies/ I’m reaching out looking for some guidance. I work as an engineering manager for a company whose non-technology...
Eric Bailey
Crafting a chatbot people will use: Part 1
21st Jun 2017
On Test Automation
Looking back on the first six months of 2025
I can’t believe that it’s July already, in fact, we’re three weeks into July when I write this. In...
23rd Jul 2025
I can’t believe that it’s July already, in fact, we’re three weeks into July when I write this. In this blog post, I want to take stock of the first six months of 2025, especially the professional side of it. There will also be some more personal subjects I’ll talk about, though....
Ferd.ca
The Review Is the Action Item
2024/05/30
The Review Is the Action Item
I like to consider running an incident review to be its own...
30th May 2024
2024/05/30
The Review Is the Action Item
I like to consider running an incident review to be its own action item. Other follow-ups emerging from it are a plus, but the point is to learn from incidents, and the review gives room for that to happen.
This is not surprising advice if...
wingolog
guile lab notebook: on the move!
Hey, a quick update, then a little story. The big news is that I got
wired to a !Guilemoving...
8th Jul 2025
Hey, a quick update, then a little story. The big news is that I got
wired to a !Guilemoving garbage
collector
Specifically, this is the mostly-moving collector with conservative
stack scanning. Most collections will be marked in place. When the
collector wants to compact, it...
On Test Automation
Building and improving Page Objects, one step at a time
A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me...
31st Mar 2025
A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me because they felt they could use some support. When I first saw the code they wrote, I was pretty impressed.
Sure, there were some things I would have done differently, but most of...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025
Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python...
11th May 2025
Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python and TypeScript! This is a massive update that we’ve been working on for a year, I hope you enjoy it!
Charles Chen
Need for Speed: LLMs Beyond OpenAI with .NET 8 SSE + Channels, Llama3, and Fireworks.ai
If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and...
5th May 2024
If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and combine that with a backend capable of high-throughput concurrent processing.
Liz Denys
Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home'
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
2nd Apr 2011
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
Sometimes It Works...
Why You (Probably) Shouldn't Start With an SPA
Some history, some context
When does an SPA make sense?
So, why are SPAs bad again?
Your front-end...
1st Feb 2024
Some history, some context
When does an SPA make sense?
So, why are SPAs bad again?
Your front-end and back-end get decoupled!
It may hurt customisability
Performance will suffer
So what's the alternative?
I came across this interesting article by @gregnavis the other day. I...
Paolo Amoroso's...
The origins of my computing journey
<![CDATA[My journey to using and programming computers started around 1983 with a Sinclair ZX...
3 weeks ago
<![CDATA[My journey to using and programming computers started around 1983 with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, the very first I owned.
At the time I was clueless. For example, I wondered whether, once I loaded a program from tape, I needed to write it back at the end of the session...
alexwlchan
What is psephology?
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
3rd May 2024
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news.
As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine):
Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
Tony Finch's blog
doubly dual shuffles
Here’s a pearlescent winter holiday gift for you!
There are four variants of the algorithm for...
25th Dec 2025
Here’s a pearlescent winter holiday gift for you!
There are four variants of the algorithm for shuffling an array,
arising from two independent choices:
whether to swap elements in the higher or lower parts of the array
whether the boundary between the parts moves upwards or...
Seldo.com
Do AI-enabled companies need fewer people?
8th Mar 2026
Making software...
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
2021-01-05
In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
5th Jan 2021
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
2021-01-05
In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user:
One-time payment
Recurring payment
Free tier...
Posts on Nikita...
Rust Nation UK 2024
A month ago I received an email from the organisers of Rust Nation UK 2024 inviting me to speak at...
22nd Apr 2024
A month ago I received an email from the organisers of Rust Nation UK 2024 inviting me to speak at the conference. One of the speakers got COVID and I was chosen to be their replacement. I had less than 48 hours to prepare the slides, which was a fun challenge, but very...
Steve Klabnik
Nobody understands REST or HTTP
3rd Jul 2011
On Life and Lisp
AAA gaming on Asahi Linux
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi
game playing toolkit, which...
10th Oct 2024
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi
game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86
emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL
3.0.
Asahi Linux now ships the only conformant OpenGL®,
OpenCL™,
and...
Max Countryman
Data for Decisions
Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our...
1st Feb 2023
Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our businesses. That said, the value of data is rarely the data itself but instead the insights we derive from it. In order to ensure these insights are meaningful and impactful it's...
Josh Comeau's blog
The World of CSS Transforms
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take...
9th Aug 2021
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
3rd Jul 2019
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses
MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are...
24th Dec 2017
MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are available on Vimeo but not well indexed. They have a better index (and another here) on their website, but also not great.
This is a list of videos and a bit of info about each...
A Beautiful Site
Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin
You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the...
22nd Jan 2010
You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the appropriate section of the page? Pretty slick, right? Here are a couple snippets so you can do the same thing on your own website.
Scroll to a specific element #
Here's how to...
markround.com
A Splinter In Your Mind
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be...
15th Nov 2022
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis helped make sense of a lot things and has given me a greater insight into my “way of being in the world”. Whilst there are times I...
Computer Things
[April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers
My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth...
1st Apr 2025
My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth playing if you've never enjoyed a video game before. Patreon notes here.
(April Cools is a project where we write genuine content on non-normal topics. You can see all the other April...
Patrick Kayongo
Of Mountains and Hills
It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The...
16th Mar 2024
It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The love may have come from the views he found solace in during his years of sojourn in Cape Town. From the upper campus of UCT, he would take lunch walks to Rhodes Memorial to escape...
Ferd.ca
Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums
I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to...
18th Nov 2024
I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to believe I do so on purpose. I want to know as much as I can about the context of what it is that I'm automating.
I also use a limited set of tools. I used old computers for a long...
bt RSS Feed
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
2021-05-19
Hey would you look at that - my personal...
19th May 2021
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
2021-05-19
Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol’ Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
Steve Klabnik
A new introduction to Rust
27th Feb 2015
Blog of Simple...
The path to 1M ARR - April 2023
2nd May 2023
swyx's site RSS Feed
Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup
AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make...
2nd Jun 2020
AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make it work with Rollup with a few tweaks.
Sebastian Witowski
Let's Write an IPython Extension the Hard Way
I love IPython. I love using it, I love writing about it, I love taking pictures with its core...
16th Jul 2020
I love IPython. I love using it, I love writing about it, I love taking pictures with its core contributors (Hi Paul!). If I ever get invited to the "Talk Python To Me" podcast (not that I have anything interesting to talk about), and Michael Kennedy is going to ask me what my...
A Smart Bear
Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?
Which is better: Two companies have the same revenue, one from a few large customers and the other...
1st May 2012
Which is better: Two companies have the same revenue, one from a few large customers and the other from many little customers
ntietz.com blog -...
Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
27th Feb 2019
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Switching Blot sync from Google Drive to Git
<![CDATA[In 2023 I migrated my personal website from Squarespace to Blot. Blot is a static site...
2nd Feb 2025
<![CDATA[In 2023 I migrated my personal website from Squarespace to Blot. Blot is a static site generator that publishes as a website a folder stored on Google Drive, Dropbox, or a Git repository.
Back then I set up Blot to publish a Google Drive folder but I recently switched...
Liz Denys
Building confidence in the face of impostor syndrome
When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I...
27th Jun 2014
When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I question if I am a good enough engineer, designer, or statistician, but once I get started, my excitement transforms those doubts into motivation.
But all bets are off as soon as I...
TokyoDev
Dealing with Pathological Anxiety in Japan
My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The...
10th Jul 2026
My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The opportunity to break away from my comfort zone, brave new horizons, and immerse myself in new cultures has probably been the greatest joy I’ve found during my time on this Earth....
charity.wtf
Software Sprawl, The Golden Path, and Scaling Teams With Agency
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The company is growing like crazy, your engineering team...
2nd Dec 2018
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The company is growing like crazy, your engineering team keeps rising to the challenge, and you are ferociously proud of them. But some cracks are beginning to show, and frankly you’re a little worried. You have always advocated for...
Dan Slimmon
Incident metrics tell you nothing about reliability
When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As...
4th Apr 2023
When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As long as we’re creating standards for incidents, let’s track Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR) and Mean-Time-To-Detection (MTTD) and Mean-time-Between-Failures (MTBF)!” they say things...
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...
6th Jan 2024
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...
Josh Collinsworth
WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the...
31st Dec 2015
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the style.css file included with your theme and begin making alterations. And that will work—at least for a while—but it won’t be a good idea…
Eric Migicovsky's...
The Early Days of GitLab - A Chat with Sid Sijbrandij
It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is...
3rd Aug 2020
It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is that many of the most successful founders will find…
A Beautiful Site
Postleaf: reimagined
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging...
26th Apr 2017
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging platform. The initial version was well-received, landing an article on TechCrunch and making its way to #1 for the day on Product Hunt. (Thank you so much, everyone!)
Today, I'm...
Liz Denys
Introducing Loose Leaf Security, and our first episode: Securing your online account passwords
I just launched a new project with Geoffrey Thomas: Loose Leaf Security, a podcast about making good...
4th Jun 2018
I just launched a new project with Geoffrey Thomas: Loose Leaf Security, a podcast about making good computer security for everyone. We believe you don't need to be a software engineer or security professional to understand how to keep your devices and data safe. In every...
The History of the...
Expanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1
The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log...
4th Mar 2025
The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log on and start. But along the way, they found a whole new audience for shopping, which changed the way we think about commerce on the web..
The post Expanding Access: The History of...
On Life and Lisp
Clip control on the Apple GPU
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU
with an open source OpenGL driver
After a year in...
22nd Aug 2022
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU
with an open source OpenGL driver
After a year in development, the open source
“Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. There’s more
to do, but Neverball is already
playable (and a lot of fun!).
Neverball uses legacy “fixed...
The Web Witch's Blog
2023 Book Roundup
My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books. I read 21, just shy of 22. I don't get particularly hung up...
1st Jan 2024
My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books. I read 21, just shy of 22. I don't get particularly hung up on whether or not I met my goal unless it's really abysmally off target. I ended up reading many 700+ page fantasy books this year so when I average that out, that's nearly 3...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL
An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL.
The post Happy New Year: GIF...
31st Dec 2018
An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL.
The post Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Basta’s Notes
Read every error. You can't read every error.
System stability is a steady state, not a goal
18th Aug 2023
System stability is a steady state, not a goal
Darek Kay
Web push notifications: issues and limitations
In this post, I will summarize some problems and constraints that I've encountered with the...
17th Aug 2024
In this post, I will summarize some problems and constraints that I've encountered with the Notifications and Push web APIs.
Notification settings on macOS
Someone who's definitely not me wasted half an hour wondering why triggered notifications would not appear. On macOS,...
David Heinemeier...
Servers can last a long time
We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing...
7th Feb 2025
We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing thousands of cores and terabytes of RAM. Enough to fill all the app, job, cache, and database duties we needed. The entire outlay for this fleet was about half a million dollars,...
Maggie Appleton
The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes
Illustrated notes on building Gatsby themes
1st Jan 2020
Illustrated notes on building Gatsby themes
On Test Automation
Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption
In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top...
9th Oct 2024
In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top 10. For each entry, I’ll show you how to perform experiments on APIs to test for the vulnerability, and I’ll discuss my observations.
I’ll use different APIs as test subjects in...
Maggie Appleton
Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with...
2 days ago
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
TokyoDev
Extending My Japanese Visa as a Freelancer
With TokyoDev as my sponsor, I extended my Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services...
4th Aug 2025
With TokyoDev as my sponsor, I extended my Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services visa for another three years. I’m thrilled by this result, because my family and I recently moved to a small town in Kansai and have been enjoying our lives in Japan more than...
A Beautiful Site
Whipping file inputs into shape with Bootstrap
There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all...
8th Aug 2013
There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all browsers. There's even a pretty slick plugin to help get the job done. Unfortunately, most of these solutions are cumbersome, prone to cross-browser issues, and require...
Alice GG
How to solve it (with raycasting)
In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”.
It aims at helping math...
1st May 2024
In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”.
It aims at helping math teachers guide their students into solving abstract problems by asking the right questions.
It has since had a large influence on math education and computer science, to the point of...
Tony Finch's blog
One page of async Rust
I’m writing a simulation, or rather, I’m procrastinating, and this
blog post is the result of me...
17th Feb 2026
I’m writing a simulation, or rather, I’m procrastinating, and this
blog post is the result of me going off on a side-track from the main
quest.
The simulation involves a bunch of tasks that go through a series of
steps with delays in between, and each step can affect some...
Joel Gascoigne
11 cities in 3 months: The highs and lows of digital nomad lifestyle
In December, my friend and co-worker Brian [https://twitter.com/brian_lovin]
casually mentioned to...
6th May 2015
In December, my friend and co-worker Brian [https://twitter.com/brian_lovin]
casually mentioned to me that he would love to go traveling and explore Asia. I
love Asia. I lived in Japan as a kid for 3.5 years, and I lived in Hong Kong for
6 months in
Daniel Immke
Building and launching my first iPhone app
(And doing it the hard way.)
29th Jun 2019
(And doing it the hard way.)
Sedimental
Designing a fast
I wake up with a jolt, spilling most of my breakfast cereal onto a
thirsty couch. My eyes find the...
16th Jul 2015
I wake up with a jolt, spilling most of my breakfast cereal onto a
thirsty couch. My eyes find the clock. Cleaning will have to wait. I'm
downing water like there's no tomorrow, but really tomorrow starts in
one minute. Still drinking. All work is thirsty work if the day is
long...
The Changelog
Fast, Ordered Unixy Queues over NNCP and Syncthing with Filespooler
It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces...
29th May 2022
It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces ordered execution of jobs that may arrive out of order. After writing this for the nth time in bash, I decided it was time to do it properly. But first, a word on the why of it all....
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...
26th Apr 2024
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...
Greg Brockman
Leaving Stripe
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I...
6th May 2015
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I soon discovered the deep satisfaction of having others actually use my creations. It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted to build a startup.
Startups #
Throughout college, I...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware January 2024
As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a...
29th Feb 2024
As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a gizmo I picked out of a junk bin in Akihabara. Personally, I could not figure out the grabby motion until I actuated the central plunger manually: So, I was impressed that Ian...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - January 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jan 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Visited Boulder - Launched a print edition of Contraption Company, which was a fun ...
Ferd.ca
Negotiable Abstractions
2023/12/21
Negotiable Abstractions
When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
21st Dec 2023
2023/12/21
Negotiable Abstractions
When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...
A Smart Bear
Strategic choices: When both options are good
Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the...
22nd Feb 2026
Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the painful ones you don't like.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Good advice on JSX conditionals
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to...
17th Jan 2022
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to have a dedicated conditional syntax, like ng-if="condition", relying on JS boolean operators instead:
condition && <JSX /> renders <JSX /> iff condition is truthy,
condition ?...
Elad Blog
AI Market Clarity
A subset of AI markets have crystalized in the last 12 months, with the likely market leaders for...
22nd Jul 2025
A subset of AI markets have crystalized in the last 12 months, with the likely market leaders for the next year or two suddenly clear
Eric Migicovsky's...
How we designed the PostHog mascot
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes...
7th Oct 2021
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes frustrating process which requires a lot of patience…
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....
24th Apr 2020
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...
Ruud van Asseldonk
LLM text makes human interactions less fun
12th Jan 2025
Sedimental
Awesome Python Applications
What we can learn from 180+ case studies on successfully shipping Python software.
If you're reading...
20th Dec 2018
What we can learn from 180+ case studies on successfully shipping Python software.
If you're reading this (or hearing
this), you read and write code, probably
Python. And for all the code you've shipped, you've probably had your
share of missed requirements. Somehere in the...
Alex MacCaw
Zone of Genius
Aligning the right people with jobs to be done is an age-old problem in company building. And on a...
12th Jun 2019
Aligning the right people with jobs to be done is an age-old problem in company building. And on a micro level, aligning yourself with the right role is also challenging. What should you delegate? Where should you focus your efforts?
I've found the Zone of Genius framework to
Joel Gascoigne
Change at Buffer: The next phase, and why our co-founder and our CTO are moving on
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
20th Feb 2017
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog
[https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/].
We’ve always done things differently at Buffer. For me, this has always come
from a natural desire to question things.
Why base your company and team in a single location? Why is...
alexwlchan
Drawing repetitive radial artworks
I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook.
I’d just...
1st Jun 2024
I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook.
I’d just had a text from a friend about an upcoming trip to Ireland, and she’d sent me the four-leafed clover emoji (🍀), so I was sketching some petal-like shapes.
These are a few of my...
Steve Klabnik
Why is Clojure so stable?
18th Dec 2018
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL
The post Happy New Year: 3D picture...
31st Dec 2020
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL
The post Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The...
5th Nov 2024
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The Boots’ aura XP boost even hit 2x for a while there.
macwright.com
Recently
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s
been fun...
1st Sep 2023
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s
been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new,
especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from
my childhood has stayed with me, and being...
Sedimental
Repeat the obvious
Bad things happen when we don't repeat the obvious.
-->
It's 9pm and I'm writing a post for the...
9th Nov 2015
Bad things happen when we don't repeat the obvious.
-->
It's 9pm and I'm writing a post for the company engineering
blog. Every sentence is a slog. Not because I'm exacting and
conciseness isn't my strong suit. My writing is slow because every
word is obvious, almost...
the singularity is...
Wireheading City
I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line:
There’s a fine line...
11th Apr 2023
I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line:
There’s a fine line that defines civilization.
Several beggars approached me on the street, and I didn’t give them anything. I suspect they would be surprised to learn that we have worse beggars in...
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