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Eric Bailey
<code>aria-label</code> is a code smell The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)...
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The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) standard. It allows a property/value declaration in HTML as a way of providing an accessible name for an interactive element. Accessible names Accessible names use text to identify...
Josh Collinsworth
How to Connect Local with CodeKit Enjoy all the convenience of easy local WordPress development with Local, plus build tools with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Enjoy all the convenience of easy local WordPress development with Local, plus build tools with CodeKit, without any of the tricky command line setup.
The Pragmatic...
Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no...
a year ago
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a year ago
Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no signup or other throttling in place. Two approaches: but there will likely be only one winner.
Julia Evans
What helps people get comfortable on the command line? Sometimes I talk to friends who need to use the command line, but are intimidated by it. I never...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sometimes I talk to friends who need to use the command line, but are intimidated by it. I never really feel like I have good advice (I’ve been using the command line for too long), and so I asked some people on Mastodon: if you just stopped being scared of the command line in...
The History of the...
Progressive enhancement brings everyone in Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we...
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Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we needed something different. We needed progressive enhancement. The post Progressive enhancement brings everyone in appeared first on The History of the Web.
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 348
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Getting duplicate ids in an HTML document I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task, but unfortunately, I didn't find anything out there that fit the bill. I did find a couple functions that returned the duplicates, but they didn't include the first occurrence (I...
Maggie Appleton
Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web
over a year ago
Dan Quach Blog
Software Estimations Using Reference Class Forecasting 18 years ago I’m sitting in my cubicle doing Java programming, and my tech lead comes up to me to...
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a year ago
18 years ago I’m sitting in my cubicle doing Java programming, and my tech lead comes up to me to chat about my next project. We discuss the details, and then she asks me the dreaded questions programmers fear which is “how long will it take?”. I stumble with some guestimate...
Blog System/5
Synology DS923+ vs. FreeBSD w/ZFS A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from...
a month ago
Tony Finch's blog
What does it mean to be an RCU implementation? The other day, Paul McKenney posted an article on LiveJournal about different flavours of RCU,...
a year ago
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a year ago
The other day, Paul McKenney posted an article on LiveJournal about different flavours of RCU, prompted by a question about couple of Rust RCU crates. (There are a few comments about it on LWN.) McKenney goes on to propose an RCU classification system based on the API an...
Maggie Appleton
Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors Explaining React through visual metaphors
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
LLMs and Naming Things In Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs, he quotes the famous saying about there being two hard...
a year ago
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a year ago
In Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs, he quotes the famous saying about there being two hard problems in computer science: 1) cache invalidation and 2) naming things. Then he unapologetically says the “naming things” problem is solved with LLMs. Here’s Simon: [When asking...
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
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Notes on "Growing a Language" Revisiting one of my favorite talks ever, on designing programming languages for user extensibility...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Revisiting one of my favorite talks ever, on designing programming languages for user extensibility and collaboration
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions.
Blog - Bitfield...
Generic types in Go Golang generics open up a lot of exciting new possibilities for us as programmers. In this...
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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.
Marc Astbury
The Continuum of Design Where do we go from here? User centricity helped us build software, but what comes next? The past:...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Where do we go from here? User centricity helped us build software, but what comes next? The past: the genius designer design through ideology Vignelli, Da Vinci, Le Corbusier etc. master designer will intuit problems and find solutions, a moment of genius designing with atoms...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL Explain Extended New Year's post solving the Rubik's Cube in SQL The post Happy New Year: solving...
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over a year ago
Explain Extended New Year's post solving the Rubik's Cube in SQL The post Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
ntietz.com blog
"Help, iterators made my Rust program slower!" Recently in a programming community I belong to, someone presented a problem. They had a Rust...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently in a programming community I belong to, someone presented a problem. They had a Rust program which was using threads and for loops. When they updated the code to use iterators, it got dramatically slower. Why did this happen? For a Rust veteran, the problem might not be...
Basta’s Notes
I ask three questions When I'm interviewing for a job, these are the questions I ask
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds ---
over a year ago
Letters of Note
Better Letters of Note Dear all, It gives me untold amounts of pleasure to announce that the Letters of Note website has...
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over a year ago
Dear all, It gives me untold amounts of pleasure to announce that the Letters of Note website has been given its first facelift since I naively launched it in 2009 using a bog-standard Blogger template. I would like to thank, profusely but from a very safe distance, the patient...
Liz Denys
Patina tissue box, 2024 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, matte copper patina glaze
9 months ago
macwright.com
Recently I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu. Bought the album as soon...
a year ago
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a year ago
I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu. Bought the album as soon as I got home. It is, crudely explained, like if Zoë Keating dialed up the synths and pedals and rhythm, and it was also a remarkable live show. Distant Intervals by MIZU Reading I...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Rise of Immer in React > 2018: _Published on the Netlify Blog as [The Rise of Immer in...
over a year ago
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> 2018: _Published on the Netlify Blog as [The Rise of Immer in React](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/09/12/the-rise-of-immer-in-react/)_
Dan Cowell
Deadlines Work If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain,...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain, eyes burning with sunblock, sweat and ocean spray, in sub-10°C conditions, I would have called you a filthy liar. Then yesterday happened. It was meant to be
Josh Collinsworth
Let's Learn CSS Variables! CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to CSS developers. This post covers what they are, how they work, and a couple of nifty ways you can implement them on your own website.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I write blog posts every month Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my first post that my goal was to write one…
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Monitoring my indoor air quality Fri, 19 May 2023 Denver air quality live cam If there’s one thing that feels like it’s gotten worse...
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Fri, 19 May 2023 Denver air quality live cam If there’s one thing that feels like it’s gotten worse in my lifetime, it’s air quality. Colorado’s air quality last week was dismal, filled with smoke from Canadian wildfires, making Denver’s air quality among the worst of any major...
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2022 I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping...
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I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping detailed records. I don’t set reading goals, but I’m pleased with that. Nearly a third of those books came from my local library; both books I knew I already wanted to read, and books...
David Heinemeier...
Multi-tenancy is what’s hard about scaling web services Computers have gotten so ridiculously fast that there is scarcely any organization in the world that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Computers have gotten so ridiculously fast that there is scarcely any organization in the world that can overwhelm a web-based information system running on a single server. All the complexity and sophistication required to run web services today stem from multi-tenancy. From...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Case for the React Native Web Singularity There is a possible "React Native Web Singularity", when it starts being a better standalone choice...
over a year ago
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There is a possible "React Native Web Singularity", when it starts being a better standalone choice for developing for the mobile web than `react-dom`. If this speculation comes true, this would be gamechanging.
TokyoDev
How Cybozu Built an International Engineering Team While domestically quite successful, Cybozu struggled to attract international customers—until they...
4 months ago
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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...
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
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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...
the jsomers.net blog
Most book clubs are doing it wrong The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet […]
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Ryan Dahl Talks Deno on The Changelog Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more broadly. What follows are a few things that stood out to me. His Regrets From Node Are Now in Deno I think it’s interesting that Ryan’s famous talk 10 Things I Regret About Node.js...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Organic Intelligence Jeremy wrote about how the greatest asset of a company like Google is the trust people put in...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Jeremy wrote about how the greatest asset of a company like Google is the trust people put in them: If I use a [knowledge tool] I need to be able to trust [it] is good...I don’t expect perfection, but I also don’t expect to have to constantly be thinking “was this generated by a...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The importance of dogfooding - Why product managers should use their product as much as their users Product testing is essential, but your testing won’t always pick up the small sources of friction...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Product testing is essential, but your testing won’t always pick up the small sources of friction which build up over time and frustrate your users…
Steve Klabnik
Book review: New Programmer's Survival Manual
over a year ago
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
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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...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
useEffect sometimes fires before paint useEffect should run after paint to prevent blocking the update. But did you know it's not really...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
useEffect should run after paint to prevent blocking the update. But did you know it's not really guaranteed to fire after paint? Updating state in useLayoutEffect makes every useEffect from the same render run before paint, effectively turning them into layout effects....
Kagi Blog
Taking web search through the last mile (This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog (...
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(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.
Eric Bailey
Equivalent Experiences: What Are They?
over a year ago
The Changelog
Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech-oriented? And, more to...
Irrational...
Staff-Plus
7 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
A software engineer's guide to A/B testing As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired...
a year ago
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a year ago
As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired impact. Track user metrics and run A/B tests to verify…
charity.wtf
Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you Originally posted on the Stack Overflow blog on June 10th, 2024 When I was 19 years old, I dropped...
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7 months ago
Originally posted on the Stack Overflow blog on June 10th, 2024 When I was 19 years old, I dropped out of college and moved to San Francisco. I had a job offer in hand to be a Unix sysadmin for Taos Consulting. However, before my first day of work I was lured away to a […]
Joel Gascoigne
The dream forms over time In my recent travels around Asia [http://instagram.com/joelgascoigne], I’ve had the great...
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over a year ago
In my recent travels around Asia [http://instagram.com/joelgascoigne], I’ve had the great opportunity to meet a lot of local founders and aspiring entrepreneurs. One of the things that seems to come up many times is that people will ask me “what triggered you to become...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 7 best free and open-source feature flag tools Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than...
a year ago
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Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than maintaining multiple feature branches in your…
Code Of Honor
Uh-oh: was the company site hacked? Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your log files to know that hackers running site-scanners are constantly hitting your servers looking for unpatched vulnerabilities to exploit. One of the servers I wrote for Guild...
PostHog's RSS Feed
We're building a better PostHog community by closing our public Slack One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the...
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One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the project. Since launch we’ve accepted code from over…
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.26.0 PostHog 1.26.0 is here! Read about our Series B raise, our new features, and find out who are the 4...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog 1.26.0 is here! Read about our Series B raise, our new features, and find out who are the 4 new team members we've onboarded.
Daniel Marino
Why I Still Prefer to Prototype Using Code There are several design apps available at a product designers disposal, and I’ve used several of...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
There are several design apps available at a product designers disposal, and I’ve used several of them over the years. I think these days, most everyone is using Figma, but whatever app you’re using—most of them typically have some sort of prototyping feature. Typically they have...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A language for designing slides
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Software is What We Learned Along the Way Trent absolutely nails it: [the why is] where I provide the most value as a designer. I am not...
a year ago
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a year ago
Trent absolutely nails it: [the why is] where I provide the most value as a designer. I am not merely the picker of fonts, the dropper of shadows, the executor of deliverables. My greatest value as a designer lies in orchestrating the process and gathering insights — applying...
Tinloof - Blog
A basic introduction to functional programming principles in ReasonML Functional programming is a programming paradigm based on several principles such as immutability...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Functional programming is a programming paradigm based on several principles such as immutability and purity. ReasonML extends the functional language OCaml and compiles to JavaScript. This article aims to introduce you to some very basic functional principles present in...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build remote teams properly This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post How to build remote teams properly appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Mahmoud Felfel's...
The Phoenix project — Book Notes Book Notes From "The Phoenix project".
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, March 2024 The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating stuff, thanks for the contribution!
the singularity is...
Cruise NOTE: this is not about the similarly named self driving car company, it’s a movie idea Set 5 years...
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11 months ago
NOTE: this is not about the similarly named self driving car company, it’s a movie idea Set 5 years in the future. Scene 1 (the party): Our opening scene is a New Jersey houseparty, late college. Four kids lamenting the loss of their childhood. And it’s not just their childhood,...
ntietz.com blog
In Defense of the Midwest As an undergraduate, I always imagined that I would someday move to the SF Bay Area to live in the...
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over a year ago
As an undergraduate, I always imagined that I would someday move to the SF Bay Area to live in the heart of the software industry. With this in mind, in my final semester at Kent State, I joined a Silicon Valley startup as their third engineer1. The staff at that time was split:...
Josh Comeau's blog
How To Center a Div Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
Marc Astbury
A quick summary one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the ability to summarize things read any AI product’s value prop and it will say a variation of “it frees you up to do higher order/ value tasks” nobody knows what these higher order...
HTMHell
aria-labelledby = self by Weston Thayer An accessible name is how UI components are identified to assistive tech. Having a...
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by Weston Thayer An accessible name is how UI components are identified to assistive tech. Having a good accessible name is important. If not, negative effects may include screen reader users missing out on vital information, voice control users struggling to interact, and any...
Blog - Bitfield...
What is 'iota' in Go? iota is a neat feature of Go that lets us create “enums”: lists of constants with arbitrary...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
iota is a neat feature of Go that lets us create “enums”: lists of constants with arbitrary values. Let’s find out how to use iota, with this quick tutorial.
alexwlchan
Fare-Wellcome Collection I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was...
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I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was living and working in the Cambridge at the time, and I’d come into London for the day to hang out with a friend who lived near King’s Cross. We wandered up the Euston Road, popped...
swyx's site RSS Feed
35 Principles for 35 Years I turn 35 today. Here are 35 principles I have accumulated and try to live by.
over a year ago
Marco.org
Overcast 4.2: The privacy update Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas: Anonymous sync by default Overcast...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas: Anonymous sync by default Overcast has offered anonymous sync accounts since 2014. They’re fully functional, but they lack email addresses or passwords, so they can’t log into the website. A login token is stored in...
Vadim Kravcenko
Why software projects fail Question: Answer: The post Why software projects fail appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
10 months ago
Making software...
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own...
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over a year ago
Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own personal "reading list" of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
Josh Collinsworth
A response to "Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress" I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer much of a serious or objective examination of the issues at hand. Rather, the post unfortunately reads as something more akin to a puff piece, or corporate propaganda.
David Heinemeier...
Switching to Android was easy In addition to trying out Windows for a week, I also switched my main phone number to Android...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
In addition to trying out Windows for a week, I also switched my main phone number to Android recently. And that turned out to be far easier. Dangerously easy, you might say, if you were in Apple’s shoes. But it’s all down to how deep you’re mired in the platform services soup. I...
Posts on Nikita...
Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
People and Blogs and Me If you haven’t seen it, Manu has a new series called “People and Blogs” centered around a lovely...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you haven’t seen it, Manu has a new series called “People and Blogs” centered around a lovely goal: to both highlight wonderful human beings and their blogs, and also to promote a healthier way to inhabit the web and show that traditional social media is not the be all and end...
Irrational...
Drafted Eng Executive's Primer! Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer, with O’Reilly. I wanted to share a few notes on progress! First, there’s a cover, shown above in this post’s image, and also in the right rail (or bottom footer if you’re reading...
Steve Klabnik
Community Versions for Rust
over a year ago
HTMHell
Control the Viewport Resize Behavior on mobile with `interactive-widget` by Bramus figcaption { font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; } Viewports units on...
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a month ago
by Bramus figcaption { font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; } Viewports units on mobile have been a problem for a long time. Using 100vh is most likely not exactly what you initially expected it to be. To fix this, the CSS Working Group came up with more units over...
the singularity is...
A One Way Bridge Okay I went to Devcon. And while there I had a great idea that the crypto space really needs. It...
2 months ago
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Okay I went to Devcon. And while there I had a great idea that the crypto space really needs. It seems like while AI infrastructure has improved by leaps and bounds in the last 5 years, crypto infra has actually gotten worse. I’m proposing some great new infrastructure that the...
Liz Denys
To the pretty pitter, pitter, patter I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically enjoy the process but don't walk in the rain because they dislike arriving at their destinations wet. However, unless I have something of a very pressing importance at the other end...
A Smart Bear
In its emptiness, there is the function of a startup Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage...
a year ago
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Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage is meaningless, unless you decide what those things are.
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
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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...
Eric Bailey
Organizational buy-in on Responsive Design
over a year ago
Darek Kay
Git explained: Commit ranges Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept ranges of commits in different formats, which can be confusing. In this post, I will shed some light on the differences between a b, a..b and a...b commit ranges. Check out the...
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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...
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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...
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PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020 Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 ....
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Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 . For those who don't know, Hacktoberfest is an…
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Getting your Idea to the MVP This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Getting your Idea to the MVP appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
alexwlchan
Tag your infrastructure-as-code resources with a link to their definitions The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create...
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The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create all your resources by writing a file that defines them, and any time you change something, you update the definition in that file. It’s a nice idea, but easier said than...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSS in HTML: A Follow-Up I asked if anyone has tried to do RSS with HTML and a good number of people responded (via Mastodon...
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I asked if anyone has tried to do RSS with HTML and a good number of people responded (via Mastodon and email — TY kind people). Many folks pointed me to h-feed microformats which, in hindsight, I’m surprised I didn’t think of as I already implement the h-entry format on my...
Kevin Chen
Speeding up code with vectorization I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When I talk to people...
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I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When I talk to people about my problems, they usually suggest multithreading and general-purpose GPU computing. These both have downsides. Multithreading might not be the best option in systems that...
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Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
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Fungible tokens: payment flows
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Managing pure Common Lisp files on Medley <![CDATA[Managing Lisp code in the residential environment of Medley differs from similar tasks in...
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<![CDATA[Managing Lisp code in the residential environment of Medley differs from similar tasks in traditional file based Common Lisp systems. In a previous post I explained how the residential environment of Medley works, discussed some of its facilities and tools, and...
Steve Klabnik
Hypermedia FizzBuzz
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Steve Klabnik
New blog: Words
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Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots Illustrated notes on how work with immutable data in the Immer state library
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Steve Klabnik
A new introduction to Rust
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Vadim Kravcenko
Exit. Selling your SaaS This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Exit. Selling your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
elementary Blog
Visualizing The Finish Line First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already...
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First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already aware, we build elementary OS releases from the Ubuntu software repositories, so we now have a stable upstream to work from. That means it’s time for us to focus in on finishing up...
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Handmade Seattle 2023 A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
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A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with the following abstract: An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.” Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface...
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Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to...
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When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to increment the time by one day. This can become problematic for two main reasons. Issues with leap years # A year has approximately 365.25 days, hence a leap year occurs once every four...
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Disaggregated Storage - a brief introduction a brief introduction to disaggregated storage systems in context of database systems
2 months ago
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Notes from Amir Shevat on Measuring & Managing Developer Relations Notes from an a16z podcast about developer relations that I thought was valuable
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How we do meetings at PostHog Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do...
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Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do nothing but hop into one meeting after another? Even…
A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI-generated Code I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on...
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I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on AI-generated code. As an open source maintainer, I respectfully ask that you refrain from using AI-generated code when contributing to this project. This includes code generated by tools...
TokyoDev
A Horrifying User Experience After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
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After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious one. Finding an apartment went smoother than I could have imagined, and in half-a-day, I had found a new apartment. The following day I set out to take care of the tasks surrounding...
Josh Collinsworth
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn...
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If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.
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Recurse Center Day 16: Open Source merged few open pull requests on my projects
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Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on September 19, 2016: Monday morning in New York and an emergency alert Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work,...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work, after watching two men of color have their bags searched at Grand Army Plaza: I woke up today to my phone beeping in a pattern that wasn't my alarm: WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami,...
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Specialize In The New > Author's note: This is part 4 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
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> Author's note: This is part 4 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
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Making a Website Under 1kB Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
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Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn’t as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
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Ejectable Defaults Borrowing heavily from Gatsby Themes to improve the Sapper developer experience, and a discussion of...
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Borrowing heavily from Gatsby Themes to improve the Sapper developer experience, and a discussion of how Ejectable Defaults fits with the Zero Config movement
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Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS 2020-05-13 Lately, I’ve become obsessed with trying to see...
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Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS 2020-05-13 Lately, I’ve become obsessed with trying to see what I can create using only HTML and CSS (besides websites of course). Since playing with the concept of faking 3D elements, I wanted to circle back around to an older CodePen I...
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Organizing Developer Writing Retreats One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS |...
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One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS | RETREAT** in Miami!
Maggie Appleton
Tracking Humanity The introduction to my thesis on the Quantified Self movement and the culture of self-tracking
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The Pragmatic...
Twitter’s ongoing cruel treatment of software engineers Twitter has become the most toxic workplace amongst any major tech company in 2022. But why is Elon...
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Twitter has become the most toxic workplace amongst any major tech company in 2022. But why is Elon Musk treating developers in an unusually cruel way?
Jibran’s Perspective
Project 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate Links: Gumroad page Build Log My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that...
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Links: Gumroad page Build Log My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that has plagued me for my entire adult life; failure to commit and focus. I decided to work in 6 week “sprints” (inspired by Shape Up) and complete the projects I start - for some known...
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The hidden attribute in HTML by Ahmad El-Alfy The hidden attribute allows us to hide HTML elements from the page. When it was...
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by Ahmad El-Alfy The hidden attribute allows us to hide HTML elements from the page. When it was introduced, it worked in a very simple way: it set the CSS display property to none. Many people voiced concerns because here we are, mixing styles with markup again. To be fair, this...
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Hosting with Codeberg Pages Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from...
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Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from Sourcehut to Codeberg (mostly for UX reasons) and it got me looking into Codeberg Pages. It seemed like a cleaner approach to host my personal blog on the same platform I planned to also...
Eric Bailey
How to Lead Better User Interviews
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Eric Bailey
Fighting uphill As someone with a good deal of interest in the digital accessibility space, I follow WebAIM’s work...
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As someone with a good deal of interest in the digital accessibility space, I follow WebAIM’s work closely. Their survey results are priceless insights into how disabled people actually use the web, so when the organization speaks with authority on a subject, I listen. WebAIM’s...
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Guile-Bstructs 0.1.0 released I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs, version 0.1.0, has been...
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I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs, version 0.1.0, has been released! This is a library I've been working on for quite some time and after more than one rewrite and many smaller refactors I think it's finally ready to release publicly. Let's...
MMapped blog
Transposing tensor files
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A Smart Bear
No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric Is it LTV? Retention? NRR? Magic Number? Rule of 40? Or: Do you need to un-ask the question.
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A Smart Bear
How many things should there be? (Hint: Not 10) If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list...
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If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list probably doesn't have the correct number of things.
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Networking Essentials: Content Distribution How CDNs, BitTorrent and Distributed Hash tables work
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Max Countryman
Grow In Public There's a secret when it comes optimizing growth: it's about doing our work in public. But there are...
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There's a secret when it comes optimizing growth: it's about doing our work in public. But there are barriers that can make this difficult or even impossible. Here's how we build a culture that enables building in public.
Ink & Switch
Tablet Platform Showdown Comparison of Android, iPad, Surface, and Chrome OS for research prototypes
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Maggie Appleton
The Dark Forest and Generative AI Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
As Good as HTML Jan Miksovsky has a talk titled “Delivering Universal UI Patterns as Web Components” that speaks on...
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Jan Miksovsky has a talk titled “Delivering Universal UI Patterns as Web Components” that speaks on the incredible opportunity that is web components: That HTML tag that you create [for a web component] that’s just HTML. You can use that anywhere you use HTML. That means the...
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Better Box Shadows Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 Box shadow on HTML elements has been widely supported across most...
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Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 Box shadow on HTML elements has been widely supported across most browsers for a while now, but I find the default options don’t allow for much visual manipulation of the shadows in general. Let’s take a look at a default configuration of...
The Pragmatic...
CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...
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CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?
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...
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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.
The Changelog
O, Sunlight! “O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in...
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“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in this world, much hope, much life. All we need to do is pause, breathe, and take a moment to see it. It might be as simple as the gift of sunlight. I hope you all have … Continue...
charity.wtf
Every Achievement Has A Denominator One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure...
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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...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2023 Q3 As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now...
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As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now everyone wants to see how Generative AI intersects with everything. The fits are not completely natural, as Generative AI like Chat GPT is more NLP type systems, but there are a...
ntietz.com blog
Scheduling visits from the muse Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog. For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively...
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Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog. For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively inactive. And then, I just started pumping out a lot more blog posts in 2022 while attending the Recurse Center. What changed? I stopped relying on visits from the muse, and started...
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Array 1.0.0 This is the first of (what we hope are many) PostHog weekly roundup posts. We want to let the...
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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…
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How and Why to Un-Reset Tailwind's CSS Reset > 2021 edit: note that [tailwind typography now comes with a `not-prose`...
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> 2021 edit: note that [tailwind typography now comes with a `not-prose` class](https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-typography-v0-5#undo-prose-styles) that unsets typography styles
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Dwell and the Tools for Thought Hackathon I worked on a little hackathon project at AGI House with Sasha. We won!
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
An early Christmas present for you
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Using Quadratic to Discover Newsletter Links I built myself a daily email digest that informs me who is linking back to my blog. It’s a fun way...
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I built myself a daily email digest that informs me who is linking back to my blog. It’s a fun way to discover new people, blogs, and newsletter that I didn’t know existed. I recently saw links to my blog from the tldr newsletter but didn’t know which posts specifically they were...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Update 001
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Ruud van Asseldonk
LLM text makes human interactions less fun
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Billing for One CSS Change Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed...
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Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed back to the client. A simple button color change? Bill them. Additional links added to an existing menu? Send that invoice over. Some basic typeface changes? Don't do it for...
blag
Moving to Hugo some personal notes to remember the migration effort from Pelican to Hugo
over a year ago
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Introducing the Avo Inspector app We're excited to announce that we have launched a new app with Avo , a leading data governance...
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We're excited to announce that we have launched a new app with Avo , a leading data governance platform which enables you track data consistently and…
Letters of Note
I’m amputating you It was when she joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 that Frida Kahlo first met Diego Rivera,...
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It was when she joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 that Frida Kahlo first met Diego Rivera, a fellow artist 21 years Kahlo’s senior who soon became her mentor and husband. Kahlo’s life up until then had been a struggle due to polio as a child and a serious traffic...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Offline Is Just Online With Extreme Latency I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it! He talks about...
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I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it! He talks about changing the paradigm we’re currently in where a program runs in the cloud and we look at it when we’re online, to one where the program runs on the device in our hands and we...
alexwlchan
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
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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...
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...
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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...
Charles Chen
Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode - Try Code Reviews Instead In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical...
a year ago
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Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 2024-06-02 I use Ruby (specifically with Jekyll) for a lot of my...
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Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 2024-06-02 I use Ruby (specifically with Jekyll) for a lot of my clubs/projects while using my personal laptop (X220 ThinkPad) which is runs OpenBSD. Since I recently upgraded to OpenBSD 7.5 I thought it could be helpful for others if I shared my...
Joel Gascoigne
The Anti-Todo List * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For some time,...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For some time, I’ve gradually realised that my day is not only occupied by tasks from my todo list. Often, there are lots of other tasks which deserve time in my day just as much as those I have
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
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A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
Steve Klabnik
Hope
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the singularity is...
…and now we see what is possible Every 70 years America goes through a revolutionary transition. Washington, Lincoln, FDR, now? The...
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Every 70 years America goes through a revolutionary transition. Washington, Lincoln, FDR, now? The Republicans now control the Presidency, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. Is that everything? Does government power lie there, like we are told, or is it all secretly...
Epic Web Dev
Motion Safe and Motion Reduce Modifiers (tip)
a year ago
Miguel Carranza
Working with Miguel: A Practical Guide Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document...
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Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document became crystal clear to me. I am sharing mine externally to inspire other founders and leaders to reflect and write down their own working styles. These documents are incredibly...
Steve Klabnik
Abstract vs concrete
over a year ago
Seldo.com
You Will Never Be A Full Stack Developer
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The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweets I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for...
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I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for a while - Twitter encourages you to use their heavy JS script to render tweets, which undoubtedly heaps all sorts of tracking on the reader, docks your lighthouse performance...
Alex Meub
Controlling Wemo Smart Plugs with Arduino «««< HEAD Smart outlets are great. I’ve owned Belkin Wemo Mini smart plugs for years and used them...
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«««< HEAD Smart outlets are great. I’ve owned Belkin Wemo Mini smart plugs for years and used them for controlling lighting and fans. I thought it would be cool to control my Wemo plugs using a physical button (in addition to my phone). In many situations, a button is faster than...
Liz Denys
Reasons to kick Peter Thiel off Facebook's board There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about...
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There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about the threat he poses. Many of the arguments are centered around diversity, which is a tenet Facebook says it deeply values. The ways Thiel fails to value diversity matter: his...
A Beautiful Site
Import/restore MySQL files from the command line I don't use this very often, but when I do I always spend a decent amount of time trying to figure...
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I don't use this very often, but when I do I always spend a decent amount of time trying to figure it out online. Here are the steps to import a large SQL file from the command line. Upload the SQL file to the server that your MySQL database is on Execute the following command...
A Smart Bear
You're a real company when… What marks the moment when you become a "real" company?
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Write more "useless" software After my last blog post about Hurl, someone asked me, and I quote: "... why?" The simple answer is...
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After my last blog post about Hurl, someone asked me, and I quote: "... why?" The simple answer is "for the joke." But the longer answer is that useless software1 is a fantastic way to explore and experience the joy of computing. Play is an important part of exploration and...
bt RSS Feed
Very Basic Form Styling Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I...
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Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I love tinkering with pre-existing logins / sign up pages and I’ve also open sourced a minimal CSS form-styling plugin: Normform. While simple CSS plugins like these can be helpful, I...
Eric Bailey
Tribble Tribble, Tribs, Tribby P, little guy, little dude, bud, buddy. You’re my best friend’s cat, but I’m...
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Tribble, Tribs, Tribby P, little guy, little dude, bud, buddy. You’re my best friend’s cat, but I’m the next-of-kin on the pet-sitter paperwork. You’re not mine, but I’m definitely a part of you. You’ve been a presence and a comfort through most of my adult life. I’d like to...
Max Countryman
High Leverage One-on-Ones One-on-ones are an important resource for both managers and individual contributors. However, it's...
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One-on-ones are an important resource for both managers and individual contributors. However, it's easy to misuse them and squander the opportunity altogether. Let's explore how to get the most of out of these meetings by turning them into high-leverage touchpoints.
exist
Spinning Diagrams with CSS
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Zero notifications * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of months ago, my co-founder Leo [http://twitter.com/leowid] gave me an interesting suggestion: he said I should try disabling all notifications on my iPhone. I find this suggestion...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Job Screening Blog Post Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between...
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Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between them? Do you care? If not, we might not be a good fit. #designEngineering Email :: Mastodon :: Twitter #designEngineer
bt RSS Feed
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better 2021-12-17 Designing1 software is a complex...
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Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better 2021-12-17 Designing1 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...
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Pivot to PostHog YC has been running for 15 years, and getting bigger every year. That means there are more than...
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YC has been running for 15 years, and getting bigger every year. That means there are more than 2,000 companies in their network. Many are still small…
Kevin Chen
Analyzing Tesla AI Day 2022 I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been...
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I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been interesting to me because their hardware limitations drive advances in their software. Relative to other players in the industry: Low-spec sensors require ML- and data-first...
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this...
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CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this deep-dive tutorial, we'll learn how CSS keyframes work from the ground up, and see how to use them to build high-quality animations.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware May 2023 Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS...
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Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS tracker with cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity). The company went out of business shortly after the start of the pandemic. Here’s some more views of the ware — I had left...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Ruthless Edit Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album: [Let’s...
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4 months ago
Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album: [Let’s say] We’ve recorded twenty-five songs. We think the album is going to have ten. Instead of picking our favorite ten, we limit it to: “What are the five or six we can’t live...
macwright.com
codemirror-continue by Wrote and released codemirror-continue today. When you’re writing a block comment in TypeScript and...
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a year ago
Wrote and released codemirror-continue today. When you’re writing a block comment in TypeScript and you hit “Enter”, this intelligently adds a * on the next line. Most likely, your good editor (Neovim, VS Code) already has this behavior and you miss it in CodeMirror. So I wrote...
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CEO diary: The things I learned in 2022 It's always helpful to look back on the year just gone, and 2022 was an exceptionally good year for...
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It's always helpful to look back on the year just gone, and 2022 was an exceptionally good year for PostHog. Here's my personal perspective on how it…
alexwlchan
Writing a Mac app to review my photos I take a lot of photos. When I’m trying to get a particular shot, I’ll often take multiple pictures...
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I take a lot of photos. When I’m trying to get a particular shot, I’ll often take multiple pictures in the hope of getting at least one that’s good – and then my camera roll is full of similar images. I always intend to go back and clean up my pictures afterwards – pick the best...
Joel Gascoigne
The undervalued advantages of being a small startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I remember when...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I remember when I was 12, I was desperate to grow up. I think most of us are when we’re young. Similarly, when you’re getting your startup off the ground, it can be easy to wish ourselves ahead
The Changelog
Using git-annex for Data Archiving In my recent post about data archiving to removable media, I laid out the difference between backing...
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a year ago
In my recent post about data archiving to removable media, I laid out the difference between backing up and archiving, and also said I’d evaluate git-annex and dar. This post evaluates git-annex. The next will look at dar, and then I’ll make a comparison post. What is git-annex?...
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
Joel Gascoigne
Coaching and feedback within startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in the past about the evolution of our culture at Buffer [https://joel.is/post/37639846554/the-evolution-of-culture-at-a-startup]. One of the things we started to do at around 6-7...
Alex Meub
Automating Capacitive Buttons with a Modified Switchbot I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically...
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a year ago
I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically based on whether or not I was in the room. A smart outlet wouldn’t work for this because the heater has a manual switch. My next thought was to use my Switchbot smart button pusher,...
Ognjen Regoje •...
What if I spent exactly two hours on each post Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had dwindled. So, in the interest of being prolific and producing content that I can iterate and learn from, at the start of the year I decided that this year I would not spend more than...
David Heinemeier...
Delusional dreams of excess freedom Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they...
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Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer". And while I sorta agree, I think the opposite position also has its appeal: That believing in a material fix to the problem of...
James Vaughan's blog
Writing an HTTP server in Prolog
over a year ago
Remains of the Day
Invisible asymptotes "It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred...
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over a year ago
"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single...
Irrational...
Culture vs systems. Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
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a year ago
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
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Mimicry vs Reflexivity Two opposing forces that describe how perception and reality do battle.
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from? Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two...
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a year ago
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two programs. The first one is the thing you sell, and the second – is a model that undergoes some sort of verification every time you run a compiler. This second program, although, often...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
11 months ago
Computer Things
How to argue for something without any scientific evidence Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
Liz Denys
Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to build a waitlist with Supabase and Next.js Let's build a simple app where: 1. Users sign up and join a waitlist. 2. Upon admin approval,...
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a year ago
Let's build a simple app where: 1. Users sign up and join a waitlist. 2. Upon admin approval, users get a notification email and can use the app.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Circles and Momentum I had not come across this graphic from swyx until recently: I like this reminder. I know for me,...
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a year ago
I had not come across this graphic from swyx until recently: I like this reminder. I know for me, it’s often too easy to slip into a kind of cynicism that only sees endless stationary circles rather than ones with directional momentum. It reminds me of the visualizations of...
Epic Web Dev
Only use GET and POST (tip) Learn about the limitations of using HTTP methods other than GET and POST for form submissions and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn about the limitations of using HTTP methods other than GET and POST for form submissions and how it can affect the user experience.
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Estimating floating point error the easy way Unforeseen floating point error is the source of the most unpleasant bugs. The bugs that come and go...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Unforeseen floating point error is the source of the most unpleasant bugs. The bugs that come and go unpredictably. The bugs that don't reproduce on unit-tests and lay low through the integration phase only to be seen by your most important customer.
MMapped blog
Programming avant-garde
2 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
4 Q&A's on Blogging for Developers Answering Q&A's
over a year ago
Irrational...
Eng org seniority-mix model. One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company...
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2 months ago
One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company maintains their current margin and grows revenue at 25-30%, or they instead grow slower and increase their free cash flow year over year. In many organizations, engineering costs have a...
Steve Klabnik
Going vimgan
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher 2021-09-23 I have an old 2011 MacBook Air...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher 2021-09-23 I have an old 2011 MacBook Air that is running the latest version of macOS Catalina thanks to the very wonderful Catalina Patcher by dosdude1. This project has made it possible for me to run and test some of...
Making software...
Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux 2023-04-25 Users who work with git patches...
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Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux 2023-04-25 Users who work with git patches through email most likely use a terminal-based program such as aerc or mutt. CLI email clients tend to have built-in support for easily applying patches directly to their local...
Making software...
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been running on WordPress - but that ended today. I've officially switched back over to Jekyll. I'm not going to spend too much time delving into why I made the transition back, but I'll...
Making software...
Embracing Slow Tech Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux through Wayland/Sway and it is going well so far. Setting things up was much easier than I initially expected. There were only a few minor tweaks I had to make, such as setting vim...
James Vaughan's blog
Counting Usernames from Malicious Login Attempts
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Asking questions the right way In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity....
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In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity. Let’s cut the crap and dive […] The post Asking questions the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
bt RSS Feed
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS 2019-06-11 Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a previous...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS 2019-06-11 Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a previous post about how changing the display properties on tables can impact screen readers. I highly recommend his excellent article Tables, CSS Display Properties, and ARIA I find that the...
James Vaughan's blog
Movie Director Genders
over a year ago
On Test Automation
Contract testing - what (not) to test for - part 1 Recently, I started working with a new client who have been working on their contract testing...
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a month ago
Recently, I started working with a new client who have been working on their contract testing implementation for a while and figured out they could use some outside help. I’ve paid them a visit recently, and to make the most out of our time together (there was some travel...
Acko.net
Teardown Frame Teardown Rendering analysis In this post I'll do a "one frame" breakdown of Tuxedo Labs' indie game...
a year ago
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a year ago
Rendering analysis In this post I'll do a "one frame" breakdown of Tuxedo Labs' indie game Teardown. The game is unique for having a voxel-driven engine, which provides a fully destructible environment. It embraces this boon, by giving the player a multitude of tools that...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tutorial for github.com/kjk/flex Go package (implementation of CSS flexbox algorithm) Package github.com/kjk/flex implements CSS flexbox layout algorithm in Go. It’s a pure Go port of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Package github.com/kjk/flex implements CSS flexbox layout algorithm in Go. It’s a pure Go port of Facebook’s Yoga C library. High-level API overview Despite implementing CSS flexbox spec, it isn’t tied to CSS/HTML in any way. Yoga, for example, can be integrated with...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moderating AI Conferences I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
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I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
Basta’s Notes
The ghosts that lives in my garage Some thoughts about machine learning
a week ago
Epic Web Dev
What is a Superset (in programming?) (article) Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency,...
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10 months ago
Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency, scalability, and improved tooling for devs.
Steve Klabnik
Real, modern Ruby development
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Microsoft taught Apple nothing Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that characterized Microsoft during its darkest monopoly days. They’re in full “cut off the air supply” mode in Cupertino, pursuing Epic for a $73m legal bill in a lawsuit they partially lost....
Ink & Switch
Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of...
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A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of version control for game dev.
bt RSS Feed
Aqua UI CSS Buttons Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
James Vaughan's blog
Creating my own Field Desk
a year ago
Liz Denys
invalid arch-dependent ELF magic An elf stands on an arch, attempts to cast a spell, and freaks out when he is unable to cast it,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An elf stands on an arch, attempts to cast a spell, and freaks out when he is unable to cast it, or...
Patrick Kayongo
Play “I’ve got an idea!” Musa now had the attention of all the other kids. They started lifting their...
a year ago
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a year ago
“I’ve got an idea!” Musa now had the attention of all the other kids. They started lifting their backs from the lazy sloth on the paved ground outside of his garage. All the kids in the conformant townhouse complex regularly gravitated towards his house during the school...
bt RSS Feed
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
macwright.com
How I write and publish the microblog by () This microblog, by the way… I felt like real blog posts on macwright.com were becoming too...
a year ago
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a year ago
This microblog, by the way… I felt like real blog posts on macwright.com were becoming too “official” feeling to post little notes-to-self and tech tricks and whatnot. The setup is intentionally pretty boring. I have been using Obsidian for notetaking, and I store micro blog...
bt RSS Feed
Using Multiple CSS Background Images Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn’t something developers have a need to do very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn’t something developers have a need to do very often, but you can set multiple background images on a single element. Example: .element { background: url('image_path') center repeat, linear-gradient(transparent 0%, #000...
Maggie Appleton
Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
over a year ago
dthompson
Chickadee 0.10.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
a year ago
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a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. This release is on the smaller side...
somenice
Generative Fill or Degenerate Phil Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: 10 Mar 2024 - Band of Brothers Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum call where we made some concessions. I wish he were better able to take things off my hands but also I need to step up
charity.wtf
How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You? Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to...
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3 months ago
Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero interest rate phenomenon...
A Beautiful Site
The Future of Shoelace It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of...
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over a year ago
It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of the project to ship Web Components. What started off as a fun side project has quickly grown to become one of the most recognized Web Component libraries in the world. As of...
James Vaughan's blog
Putting the Casio F-91W band on an Apple Watch
over a year ago
Ralph Ammer
So… this is a job? What is Design? The post So… this is a job? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
over a year ago
blag
Introducing CaskDB – a project to teach you writing a key-value store CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable...
over a year ago
Patrick Kayongo
Substack vs Africa The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging and online writing was dead, superseded by YouTube, Substack came along and solved the problems of discovery and monetisation. Their feed and recommendations have allowed many to...
ntietz.com blog
Approximating the Sierpinski Triangle on my CNC One of my big hobbies outside of tech is chess. I like to play it, and I also help run our town's...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
One of my big hobbies outside of tech is chess. I like to play it, and I also help run our town's chess club. As part of that, we like to run rated tournaments to get our members some experience in a low-pressure tournament environment. These are my responsibility to organize and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Formats over Functions Why we should focus less on Implementation and more on Standardization
over a year ago
Making software...
HTML Dark Mode HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode...
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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...
Making software...
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the...
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over a year ago
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the modern web falls under the realm of accessibility and should not be ignored. It is important and helps keep the visual flow of your content to match that of your users' operating...
Irrational...
Testing strategy: avoid the waterfall strategy trap with iterative refinement. If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that prematurely applying...
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3 months ago
If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that prematurely applying pressure to a strategy’s rollout prevents evaluating whether the strategy is effective. Pressure changes behavior in profound ways, and many of those changes are intended to make...
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
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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.
HTMHell
#9 Cookie Consent from Hell Bad code <body> <header>…</header> <main>…</main> <footer>…</footer> <div...
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over a year ago
Bad code <body> <header>…</header> <main>…</main> <footer>…</footer> <div class="cookie_consent modal"> <p>We use cookies…</p> <div class="cookie_consent__close"> <i class="fa fa-times"></i> </div> <div class="cookie_consent__ok">OK</div> ...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, August 2023 The Ware for August 2023 is shown below. Thanks to adrian for sharing this ware! Adrian sent me...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for August 2023 is shown below. Thanks to adrian for sharing this ware! Adrian sent me several wonderful photos, and the whole thing is actually pretty neat to look at. However, for better or for worse the parts in the ware are so unique that most of them resolve to an...
Maggie Appleton
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
over a year ago
Making software...
Width or Flex-Basis? Width or Flex-Basis? 2018-11-28 Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Width or Flex-Basis? 2018-11-28 Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be a little tricky depending on the desired outcome. Let's breakdown how to solve this issue using both inline-block paired with width and flex-basis. Width Setting the width of the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. II Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing...
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11 months ago
Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing line between these two containers should be interactive so the user can drag to resize the respective containers on either side. Perhaps that note is all you get. Or perhaps the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to customize your Transistor.fm Website with JS and CSS The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly. Here's how to customize your Transistor.fm website...
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over a year ago
The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly. Here's how to customize your Transistor.fm website if you use Transistor. But also it's a simple guide to do clientside customizations of almost any website whose code you don't control.
Making software...
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher 2021-09-23 I have an old 2011 MacBook Air...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher 2021-09-23 I have an old 2011 MacBook Air that is running the latest version of macOS Catalina thanks to the very wonderful Catalina Patcher by dosdude1. This project has made it possible for me to run and test some of...
A Smart Bear
Distributed Logical Time Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is...
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over a year ago
Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Origin of Online Handles There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about. For example:...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about. For example: Jeremy Keith is “Adactio”. I have no idea what that word means. A quick internet search reveals no hints. Even ChatGPT has no idea. Dave Rupert is davatron5000. I wonder where...
Vadim Kravcenko
🙀 Startup founder fears by funding round Startup founders have a lot of fears. Some are afraid they won’t find a technical co-founder or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Startup founders have a lot of fears. Some are afraid they won’t find a technical co-founder or attract angel investment. […] The post 🙀 Startup founder fears by funding round appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
ntietz.com blog -...
Supporting coworkers, employees, and friends in this time We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An...
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We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An election just finished in the US, which means that half the country lost and has to face the coming changes. In particular, this is a scary time for many folks who have been targets in...
A Beautiful Site
SSH failing on macOS Sierra For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel...
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For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel Pro, and a handful of other apps. In fact, it seems to break any app that uses an SSH key with a passphrase. 🤔 The solution I found was to tell SSH to use the MacOS keychain. Simply...
David Gerrells
how to save $13.27 on your sAAs bill Vercel has a decent entry level analytics product which I cannot afford so I am going to build my...
5 months ago
HTMHell
Design pattern for custom tooltips by Jan Hellbusch Should we use tooltips to convey information? Hints and descriptions are often...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Jan Hellbusch Should we use tooltips to convey information? Hints and descriptions are often included on web pages through tooltips – but not everyone has access to them. A tooltip is a short text that usually appears as a popup when a user hovers a mouse pointer over an...
HTMHell
One day we'll have a fully customisable select Today, I want to look at a proposed HTML feature that may end up replacing a lot of <div>s-based...
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over a year ago
Today, I want to look at a proposed HTML feature that may end up replacing a lot of <div>s-based custom input components: <selectmenu>. CSS is awesome I realise this calendar is about HTML. And I'll get to that. But first, let me start with CSS. CSS is fantastic, because it has...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Single Line Comments in CSS Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found...
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Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found himself missing some of the ergonomics from Sass. Having mostly abandoned Sass on personal projects, I was curious what he felt was missing. He mentioned nesting media queries,...
The Changelog
Airgapped / Asynchronous Backups with ZFS over NNCP In my previous articles in the series on asynchronous communication with the modern NNCP tool, I...
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In my previous articles in the series on asynchronous communication with the modern NNCP tool, I talked about its use for asynchronous, potentially airgapped, backups. The first article, How & Why To Use Airgapped Backups laid out the foundations for this. Now let’s dig into the...
A Smart Bear
Your non-linear problem of 90% utilization Is everyone is working very hard, all the time, and yet accomplishing 1/10th of what it seems they...
a year ago
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a year ago
Is everyone is working very hard, all the time, and yet accomplishing 1/10th of what it seems they should? Maybe this is why.
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
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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...
davidyat.es
Deprecating shortcodes with render hooks
3 months ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Reflecting on 2024, preparing for 2025 If you do things a few times, they're a tradition. This is the third time I'm writing one of these,...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
If you do things a few times, they're a tradition. This is the third time I'm writing one of these, so I guess it's an annual tradition now! This is where I reflect on the year that's been, and talk some about my hopes and goals for the next year. Reflecting on 2024 This year has...
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The Coronavirus Recession and What it Means for Developers The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look like, what Devs can do to prepare, and why it's not the End of the World.
A Beautiful Site
CSS drop caps Traditionally found in printed media, drop caps are created by emphasizing the size, color, weight,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Traditionally found in printed media, drop caps are created by emphasizing the size, color, weight, or style of the first letter in the first sentence of a paragraph. We can easily reproduce this effect on webpages by using the :first-letter pseudo element. Writing the styles...
alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step… Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”. I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance. This...
Seán Barry
Quitting the Rat Race I'm leaving a comfortable job in a big city because there's more to life than whatever this is.
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm leaving a comfortable job in a big city because there's more to life than whatever this is.
Joel Gascoigne
For the first few people, hire from your network * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky enough to have reached the stage with Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we have had to start to think about growing the team. For the first 10 months the team consisted of just...
Paolo Amoroso's...
A brief experience with the Cardputer uLisp Machine <![CDATA[For Chrismtas 2024 I bought myself a lovely little Cardputer uLisp Machine, an M5Stack...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
<![CDATA[For Chrismtas 2024 I bought myself a lovely little Cardputer uLisp Machine, an M5Stack Cardputer that can run uLisp. The M5Stack Cardputer is a card-sized, microcontroller-based portable system for home automation, hobby, and industrial applications. Although not...
Identity Designed
Bright Barley Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above, and check out the full transcript.
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
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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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The Platinum Rule You've heard of the Golden Rule? "Treat others as you want to be treated." Introducing the Platinum...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You've heard of the Golden Rule? "Treat others as you want to be treated." Introducing the Platinum and Silver Rules.
Eric Bailey
I don’t want your job
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Designing a Logo I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo:...
a week ago
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a week ago
I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-brand-ai-engineering-podcast-help-define-industry-1307842/
HTMHell
#29 Randomly grouping content Bad code <section> <aside> <div> <section> <header> <a href="/"> ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <section> <aside> <div> <section> <header> <a href="/"> <img src="logo.svg" alt="Logo"> </a> </header> <main> <a href="/services">Services</a> <a href="/products">Products</a> ...
Irrational...
Gelling your Engineering leadership team. One of the first leadership books I read was Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the first leadership books I read was Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which introduces the concept of your peers being your “first team” rather than your direct reports. This was a powerful idea for me, because it’s much harder to be a good teammate to...
Max Countryman
Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose With a little bash scripting, a modern reverse proxy like Traefik, and Docker Compose, we can put...
a year ago
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a year ago
With a little bash scripting, a modern reverse proxy like Traefik, and Docker Compose, we can put together a fairly robust and simple approach to zero-downtime deployment. Moreover, this approach is flexible and scalable, even for dynamic container backends.
A Smart Bear
Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that "avoiding those things" is already a plan for...
9 months ago
Eric Bailey
Equifax Data Breach, Credit Freezes, and Beholden Design Ever been frustrated because a movie theater plays advertisements before the trailers even start?...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ever been frustrated because a movie theater plays advertisements before the trailers even start? This is a kind of experience I call “Beholden Design.” Full of Dark Patterns and pain, Beholden Design is the evil, goatee-wearing twin of Universal Design. It forces people to...
alexwlchan
A Python function to iterate through an S3 Bucket Inventory For a couple of our S3 buckets at work, we use S3 Bucket Inventory to track their contents. Once a...
a year ago
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a year ago
For a couple of our S3 buckets at work, we use S3 Bucket Inventory to track their contents. Once a week, it creates an inventory; a collection of compressed CSV files that describe every object in the bucket. If we want to analyse everything in the bucket, reading this inventory...
Irrational...
Balancing your CEO, peers, and Engineering. There are so many stories of hiring a new executive who comes in and wreaks havoc. I’ve seen...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are so many stories of hiring a new executive who comes in and wreaks havoc. I’ve seen engineering leaders start with a giant, doomed migration, marketing leaders who accelerate expenses until they necessitate a round of layoffs, and a number of executives fired in their...
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HogMail #21: Avoiding the "Product Death Cycle" Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
a year ago
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a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Greg Brockman
The OpenAI Mission This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on OpenAI for the past three years. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which we define as automated systems that outperform humans at most...
Josh Comeau's blog
Announcing “use-sound”, a React Hook for Sound Effects By and large, using the web is a visual experience. This is in terrible contrast to mobile apps,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
By and large, using the web is a visual experience. This is in terrible contrast to mobile apps, which interact with three of our human senses (sight, sound, and touch, through haptic feedback). I just released a library to make it easy to add sound to your React app, and I make...
The Changelog
Really Enjoyed Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary Like many young programmers of my age, before I could use the Internet, there were BBSs. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Like many young programmers of my age, before I could use the Internet, there were BBSs. I eventually ran one, though in my small town there were few callers. Some time back, I downloaded a copy of Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary. You might know Jason Scott from textfiles.com and...
Joel Gascoigne
An invitation to come and hack on Buffer * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The last two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The last two years have been truly incredible. What started in my bedroom in the UK has taken us across the world [https://joel.is/post/27260290057/thoughts-on-travelling-with-your-startup] to...
Liz Denys
The underappreciated men's rights activist as a character background As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights movement looks to be about getting equal rights with respect to things like adoptions and custody disputes, but actually, the movement is primarily a coordinated attack on women....
Irrational...
Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis. These are speaking notes for my October 4th, QCon talk in San Francisco. Slides for this talk. Over...
a year ago
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a year ago
These are speaking notes for my October 4th, QCon talk in San Francisco. Slides for this talk. Over the course of my career, I’ve frequently heard from colleagues, team members and random internet strangers with the same frustration: the company doesn’t have an Engineering...
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I used to think you don't need product people. I was wrong. When PostHog was fresh out of YC last year, there were two things we focused on: (i) build and (ii)...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When PostHog was fresh out of YC last year, there were two things we focused on: (i) build and (ii) talk to customers. Hiring a product person felt…
Code Of Honor
The making of Warcraft part 3 The first-ever multiplayer game of Warcraft was a crushing victory, an abject defeat, and a tie, all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The first-ever multiplayer game of Warcraft was a crushing victory, an abject defeat, and a tie, all at once. Wait, how is that possible? Well, therein lies a tale. This tale grew organically during the writing to include game AI, the economics of the game business, fog of war...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
Patrick Kayongo
Park Games As the shedding of the luck-bean tree forms coral carpets on the grass below; as the birds begin...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As the shedding of the luck-bean tree forms coral carpets on the grass below; as the birds begin their morning song earlier into the fourth watch of the night, calling the sun to come out to play; as new flowering greens shoot out of chronic brown branches; urban nature dances to...
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
TokyoDev
How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan “Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
“Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. So I began my very first, brief and spontaneous trip to any Asian country, in February of 2024. I’m sure I wasn’t the first or last tourist with such ideas...
Nelson's Weblog
Noom is exploitative I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy program. The app is more like CBT...
a year ago
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a year ago
I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy program. The app is more like CBT for upselling customers than CBT for weight loss. Now I’m hoping they’ll delete my sensitive medical data and refund the $3 they tricked me out of. (They did, quickly in...