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A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value...
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An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value only depends on the four neighboring pixel values. The image becomes smooth, but sharp features remain sharp.
Ralph Ammer
Show me! Why do we like images? Because they help us understand things.  But what does that mean?...
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Why do we like images? Because they help us understand things.  But what does that mean? Understanding Well, the world is complicated. And in order to make good decisions we need to know what is going on. Language can help us structure the world. So one way to understand things...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This...
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NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This guide walks you through these concepts one by one.
Remains of the Day
The Uncanny Valley of Interactivity I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from...
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I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from structural ossification in the music, film, and publishing businesses, to name the most prominent. One of the ways this manifests is in the one-way broadcast nature of much of our...
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Happy New Year: quantum computer emulator in SQL Last year, my good friend and colleague Matt Ward challenged me to implement a quantum computer...
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Last year, my good friend and colleague Matt Ward challenged me to implement a quantum computer emulator in SQL. Challenge accepted! This year we will be building an SQL query which will emulate a quantum computer. This query will process quantum assembly, build the circuit, run...
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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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?...
Sometimes It Works...
Why You (Probably) Shouldn't Start With an SPA Some history, some context When does an SPA make sense? So, why are SPAs bad again? Your front-end...
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Some history, some context When does an SPA make sense? So, why are SPAs bad again? Your front-end and back-end get decoupled! It may hurt customisability Performance will suffer So what's the alternative? I came across this interesting article by @gregnavis the other day. I...
A Smart Bear
The only way to guarantee startup success What is it like to reach the pinnacle of success? Is that where you attain happiness and...
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What is it like to reach the pinnacle of success? Is that where you attain happiness and fulfillment? Or are those found right here, right now.
Josh Collinsworth
My Essential Tools for WordPress Development Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily...
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Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily development-related; some have to do with productivity or just make life a little easier. That’s by design. Part of being a developer is learning to work and use your tools as...
David Heinemeier...
Commit to competence in this coming year It’s that time of year where people often start thinking about new year’s resolutions. I want to...
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It’s that time of year where people often start thinking about new year’s resolutions. I want to loose 10 lbs, I want to read more books, I want to x, y, and z. Often, it’s just a fantasy. They’re not actually going to loose 10 lbs or they might order some more books but never...
bt RSS Feed
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer 2022-12-08 Introduction I’ve made the switch...
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Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer 2022-12-08 Introduction I’ve made the switch to Alpine Linux as my main laptop/desktop hybrid workstation and I love it - warts and all. This post will follow my process building my Alpine Linux “installer” I used for this...
Max Countryman
Delivering Value with Platform Engineering Platform Engineering offers a unique value prop to engineering orgs by focusing its attention on the...
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Platform Engineering offers a unique value prop to engineering orgs by focusing its attention on the holistic system. This in contrast to and in direct support of teams which focus on a narrower domain. In doing so, platform teams elevate and accelerate the work of their peers...
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
Steve Klabnik
Update GitHub Pages with Travis CI
over a year ago
Coding Horror
The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.
3 months ago
charity.wtf
On Versioning Observabilities (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…10.0?!?) Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker.  As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a...
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Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker.  As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a preview draft of her post: “PLEASE don’t post this! I feel like I spend all my time trying to help bring clarity and context to what’s happening in the market, and this is NOT...
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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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...
MMapped blog
Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday
over a year ago
macwright.com
Hacker News Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s the only JavaScript on most pages, which are...
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Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s the only JavaScript on most pages, which are otherwise pretty minimal. try { if (document.referrer) { const ref = new URL(document.referrer); if (ref.host === 'news.ycombinator.com') { window.location.href =...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A perspective shift on automated market makers through MEV
over a year ago
Alex Meub
A Great Bumper Sticker I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago...
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I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago and I couldn’t stop laughing: It’s of course making fun of the Earth Stickers that are so common everywhere (especially in Portland): If you’re curious, the original sticker was...
Epic Web Dev
Use Zod for All Form Validation (tip) Learn how to use Zod and Conform to validate and transform form data into sessions
a year ago
Blog of Simple...
GDPR and fines: all there is to know
9 months ago
Acko.net
On Progress The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to...
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The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter. Not me though. For whatever reason,...
macwright.com
A shortcut for bash using tt by () I heavily use the ~/tmp directory of my computer and have the habit of moving to it, creating a new...
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a year ago
I heavily use the ~/tmp directory of my computer and have the habit of moving to it, creating a new temporary directory, moving into that, and creating a short-lived project. Finally I automated that and have been actually using the automation: I wrote this tiny zsh function...
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PostHog raises $15 million Series B for open source product analytics Jun 10th, 2021 – PostHog , the open source product analytics company, today announced $15 million...
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Jun 10th, 2021 – PostHog , the open source product analytics company, today announced $15 million in fresh funding and major new free features for…
samwho.dev
A Logical Way to Split Long Lines Splitting long lines is something we do every day as programmers, but rarely do I hear discussion...
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Splitting long lines is something we do every day as programmers, but rarely do I hear discussion about how best to do it. Considering our industry-wide obsession with “best practices,” line breaks have managed to stay relatively free from scrutiny. A few years ago, I learned a...
Vadim Kravcenko
Fundraising for SaaS Startups 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 Fundraising for SaaS Startups appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2024 The ware for December 2024 is shown below. This one should be a cakewalk, and I’m mostly sharing it...
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The ware for December 2024 is shown below. This one should be a cakewalk, and I’m mostly sharing it because I had trouble searching for a recent example at an image quality sufficient to make out most of the part numbers. Maybe this can help someone else in a similar fix! Warm...
Steve Klabnik
Reddit drama: an interesting look at community values
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Why I sold Doorkeeper この記事は[日本語でも](/articles/why-i-sold-doorkeeper-ja)お読みいただけます。 I can pinpoint the exact time when I...
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この記事は[日本語でも](/articles/why-i-sold-doorkeeper-ja)お読みいただけます。 I can pinpoint the exact time when I decided to sell [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp), the event management platform I helped launch in 2010, incorporated in 2013, and made profitable in 2016. It was a Friday...
davidyat.es
Postmortem: Ludum Dare 53
over a year ago
beep.blog
Rolumns 1.3 & Recompose 1.0 I built them, and now you're going to hear about it.
a year ago
David Crawshaw
Remembering the LAN Remembering the LAN How it was How it is A dream: How it will be 2020-01-28 A memory and a dream. I...
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Remembering the LAN How it was How it is A dream: How it will be 2020-01-28 A memory and a dream. I started programming in the 1990s living above my parent's medical practice. We had 15 PCs for the business, and one for me. The standard OS was MS-DOS. The network started off...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Git’s push url
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
The Power of Principles in Web Development Decision-Making (article) Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making,...
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Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making, boost your career, and help you build better software.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Talk Notes for The End of Localhost (Infobip Shift 2022) I returned to Zadar!
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS Notes on how to use the position property in CSS to make scrollytelling stories
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
As a recent college graduate, should I work in a tech startup? As someone that has worked in startups and large companies in their career, it depends on what you...
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As someone that has worked in startups and large companies in their career, it depends on what you want to […] The post As a recent college graduate, should I work in a tech startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Julia Evans
Migrating Mess With DNS to use PowerDNS About 3 years ago, I announced Mess With DNS in this blog post, a playground where you can learn how...
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About 3 years ago, I announced Mess With DNS in this blog post, a playground where you can learn how DNS works by messing around and creating records. I wasn’t very careful with the DNS implementation though (to quote the release blog post: “following the DNS RFCs? not exactly”),...
PostHog's RSS Feed
After the HN launch PostHog launched on Hacker News . We were pleased with the reception. The reason we launched wasn’t...
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PostHog launched on Hacker News . We were pleased with the reception. The reason we launched wasn’t trying to get the world’s attention – we wanted to…
Epic Web Dev
Why I Won't Use Next.js From the perspective of web standards to concerns about increasing complexity, Kent C. Dodds shares...
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From the perspective of web standards to concerns about increasing complexity, Kent C. Dodds shares his opinions on why he won't use Next.js.
HTMHell
Dear developer, your assumptions are wrong As developers, validation of user input is one of the first things we are taught. So, for example,...
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As developers, validation of user input is one of the first things we are taught. So, for example, we may think it would be a good idea to put some restrictions in an input field for a name: <label for="name">First name:</label> <input type="text" minlength="3" maxlength="20"...
Greg Brockman
How I became a machine learning practitioner For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little...
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For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little progress towards that goal. Over the past nine months, I’ve finally made the transition to being a machine learning practitioner. It was hard but not impossible, and I think most...
charity.wtf
Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between...
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Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between the pillars model and the single unified storage model and applying “2.0” to the latter, Christine was like “so what is going to stop the next vendor from slapping 3.0, 4.0, 5.0...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Ban std::string The use of std::string should be banned in C++ code bases. I’m sure this statement sounds like...
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The use of std::string should be banned in C++ code bases. I’m sure this statement sounds like heresy and you want to burn me at stake. But is it really controversial? Java, C#, Go, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP: they all have immutable strings that are basically 2 machine words:...
Renegade Otter
Death by a thousand microservices The Church of Complexity There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to...
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The Church of Complexity There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to the project manager how an overly complicated maze of microservices works in order to get a user’s birthday - and fails to do so anyway. The scene accurately describes the...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Upcoming changes to the discovery feed Bear's discovery feed improvements and a call for feedback
11 months ago
Dan Slimmon
Ask questions first, shoot later The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that...
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The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that these two concurrent activities have different goals. The goal of fixing is to bring the system into line with your mental model of how it's supposed to function. The goal of...
bt RSS Feed
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu...
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Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
bt RSS Feed
Skip to Content Button Skip to Content Button 2019-03-25 One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility...
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Skip to Content Button 2019-03-25 One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility is the “keyboard-only” audit. This is where you test navigating through your entire site without the use of a mouse, but instead rely solely on tabbing through your...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Neither necessary nor sufficient
over a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
When am I "allowed" to quit and not be labeled a quitter? There’s a type of startup that stays alive but doesn’t achieve meaningful growth. One that keeps...
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There’s a type of startup that stays alive but doesn’t achieve meaningful growth. One that keeps raising bridge rounds but whose valuation stagnates. Anecdotally, their founders belong to two groups: They’re still convinced that the business will work and are unflappable in their...
alexwlchan
A flash of light in the darkness I support dark mode on this site, and as part of the dark theme, I have a colour-inverted copy of...
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I support dark mode on this site, and as part of the dark theme, I have a colour-inverted copy of the default background texture. I like giving my website a subtle bit of texture, which I think makes it stand out from a web which is mostly solid-colour backgrounds. Both my...
Vadim Kravcenko
How do I tell my cofounder I need to quit? First of all, I’m sorry you ended up in such a situation. Running in overdrive for so long is a...
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First of all, I’m sorry you ended up in such a situation. Running in overdrive for so long is a […] The post How do I tell my cofounder I need to quit? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL Christmas divination: implementing Conway's Life in SQL The post Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of...
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Christmas divination: implementing Conway's Life in SQL The post Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Next.js as a Static Site Generator for Netlify How to deploy a Static Next.js Site to Netlify, and then upgrade it to use Dynamic Route Segments to...
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How to deploy a Static Next.js Site to Netlify, and then upgrade it to use Dynamic Route Segments to become a full fledged Static Site Generator!
alexwlchan
The best way to tell a website your age There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access...
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There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access certain content online. Now children can be protected from adult content like well-organised spreadsheets, YouTube videos about kitchen appliances, and websites that sell you...
elementary Blog
Happy Holidays! We Come Bringing Gifts! It’s only been a little over 2 weeks since we released elementary OS 8, but we’re already back with...
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It’s only been a little over 2 weeks since we released elementary OS 8, but we’re already back with updates just in time for the holidays! Terminal The headliner this month is Terminal which comes with a bunch of fixes and new features thanks to Jeremy. It now uses the more...
Renegade Otter
Getting our focus back “We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
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a year ago
“We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the nine unmonetized glances. An...
Patrick Kayongo
Rhythms of Order Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous...
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Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous generations could never have dreamed of. Whether it’s bypassing traffic jams on the outskirts of hills of Kampala, or it’s determining your public transport route from your hotel to your...
David Heinemeier...
Joining the Shopify board of directors I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he...
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I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he was building Snowdevil, which eventually became Shopify, to sell snowboards online. Here's his first commit to Rails from 2004, which improved the ergonomics of controller testing....
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git the stupid password store .title {text-wrap:balance;} GIT - the stupid content tracker “git” can mean anything, depending on...
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.title {text-wrap:balance;} GIT - the stupid content tracker “git” can mean anything, depending on your mood. – Linus Torvalds, Initial revision of “git”, the information manager from hell Like most git features, gitcredentials(7) are obscure, byzantine, and incredibly...
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.1 released I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and...
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I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and runs a script when one of your zones changes. This nsnotifyd-2.1 release includes a few bugfixes: more lenient handling of trailing . in domain names on the command line avoid...
Alice GG
How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS? When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky...
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When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question. On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waking up to an unexpected 100k$ bill from their provider. But on the other hand, you will see providers advertising costs...
dthompson
How to apply Hilltop's Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 English patch on Linux Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop released an English patch for...
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Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop released an English patch for Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, which finally makes the Japan exclusive PS2 game accessible to us English speaking folks. The README explains how to apply the patch on Windows or via a web...
James Vaughan's blog
My YouTube Watch Later Mystery Graveyard
6 months ago
alexwlchan
Starting Docker just before I need it Although I use Docker a lot, I don’t leave it running all the time – it can be quite a resource hog,...
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Although I use Docker a lot, I don’t leave it running all the time – it can be quite a resource hog, and even if it’s doing nothing it can make my laptop feel sluggish. I’ll often stop if it my computer feels slow, which is great right until the next time I need to use it: $...
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Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
over a year ago
wingolog
whippet lab notebook: on untagged mallocs Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been...
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Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been finally starting to look at getting into , and there are some open questions.WhippetGuile I started by taking a look at how Guile uses the ‘s API, to make sure I had all my bases...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Designing a Logo I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo:...
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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/
Ruud van Asseldonk
AI alignment starter pack
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to...
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As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence.
Tinker, Tamper,...
Understanding Common Table Expressions in SQL One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or...
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One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or “WITH queries”. I’ll explain the mental model that helped me make sense of them, and how to use them to execute recursive queries. Afterwards I’ll show how to apply these techniques...
Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0 released
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Video: Architecture of Groq's LPU & Why is it so Fast? This last Sunday we did a live session on Groq’s LPU and after that many people reached out to me...
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
CSS reset with box-sizing fix For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset....
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For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset. And since I'm not a glutton for punishment, I also throw in the tried and tested box-sizing fix popularized by Paul Irish. Instead of searching for and combining these...
alexwlchan
Ten years of blogging I bought the alexwlchan.net domain on November 8th, 2012, and the first web page would have appeared...
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I bought the alexwlchan.net domain on November 8th, 2012, and the first web page would have appeared shortly after that (but the exact date is lost to history). This means I’ve been writing at alexwlchan.net for about a decade. The site looks very different now to how it...
Yale e360
Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
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over a year ago
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
The Pragmatic...
What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon? Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift...
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Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift you've received is the software itself and the freedom of use granted by the license. That's it, and this ought to be straight forward, but I repeatedly see that it is not (no...
David Heinemeier...
Design for the web without Figma By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at...
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over a year ago
By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at 37signals, and I'm sure most every other software shop has too. Adobe didn't pay $20 billion for nothing. But we don't do the bulk of our design work with or in Figma when developing...
David Heinemeier...
The 80s are still alive in Denmark I grew up in the 80s in Copenhagen and roamed the city on my own from an early age. My parents...
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I grew up in the 80s in Copenhagen and roamed the city on my own from an early age. My parents rarely had any idea where I went after school, as long as I was home by dinner. They certainly didn’t have direct relationships with the parents of my friends. We just figured things...
Yale e360
How Cryptology Can Fix Identity Theft Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft...
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over a year ago
Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft victims frequently lose time and money and undergo significant mental hardships while dealing with the fallout. It can happen a few different ways, but one large attack vector is...
Elad Blog
AI Safety: Technology vs Species Threats There are at least two ways to think about potential threats coming from advanced AI. The...
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There are at least two ways to think about potential threats coming from advanced AI. The conventional view is that AI is just yet another of many tool-based technological advances. Like all technologies, the main threat of AI in this scenario is if a human were to use it for...
Making software...
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling...
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over a year ago
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling the WiFi toggle switch on my X201 which was a fun "hack" to an annoying issue I was running into. Since then, the laptop has been running flawlessly. The only other minor issue I had...
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...
Making software...
Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to...
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Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to user Achraf JEDAY for putting these instructions together on Stack Overflow (although his comments were targeting an older version of Ruby). This post is more for my own personal...
Steve Klabnik
The secret to Rails OO design
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dthompson
Chickadee 0.10.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
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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...
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The Traction vs Trust Equation of Cofounder Dating One of the most common problems in the beginning stage of a founder journey is establishing the...
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One of the most common problems in the beginning stage of a founder journey is establishing the cofounder group. I thought I would jot down some notes from my own experience + that of friends in similar situations.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Transforming HTML With Netlify Edge Functions I’ve long wanted the ability to create custom collections of icons from my icon gallery. Today I can...
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I’ve long wanted the ability to create custom collections of icons from my icon gallery. Today I can browse collections of icons that share pre-defined metadata (e.g. “Show me all icons tagged as blue”) but I can’t create your own arbitrary collections of icons. That is, until...
Eric Bailey
Mug handles My two-part piece on equivalent experiences is now live on Smashing Magazine. I have complicated...
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My two-part piece on equivalent experiences is now live on Smashing Magazine. I have complicated feelings about it. First off, writing for Smashing Magazine is a great experience, and I encourage you (yes, you) to pitch them. Their team is friendly, knowledgeable, and will help...
Josh Collinsworth
Building accessible toggle buttons (with examples for Svelte, Vue, and React) Toggle buttons might be the biggest missing native HTML element. This post will help you code them...
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over a year ago
Toggle buttons might be the biggest missing native HTML element. This post will help you code them right, for all users, in any (or no) framework.
Tinloof - Blog
How to build cron jobs with Netlify functions We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's...
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over a year ago
We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's portfolio companies into their Jobs page.
David Heinemeier...
Capture less than you create I beam with pride when I see companies like Shopify, GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, Instacart, Procore,...
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I beam with pride when I see companies like Shopify, GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, Instacart, Procore, Doximity, Coinbase, and others claim billion-dollar valuations from work done with Rails. It's beyond satisfying to see this much value created with a web framework I've spent the...
Computer Things
What could be added to TLA+ Last week Leslie Lamport posted The Future of TLA+, saying "the future of TLA+ is in the hands of...
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Last week Leslie Lamport posted The Future of TLA+, saying "the future of TLA+ is in the hands of the TLA+ foundation". Lamport released TLA+ in 1999 and shepherded its development for the past 25 years. Transferring ownership of TLA+ to the official foundation has been in the...
Ralph Ammer
Bergson — Why we live in the past Should we just live in the moment? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson...
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Should we just live in the moment? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson claims that this is not even possible. 1. Perception is physical First of all: How do we perceive the “current moment” anyway? Bergson suggests that the whole point of perception is...
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
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The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
bt RSS Feed
Disabling Comments in WordPress Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and...
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Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future and previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down. Back...
Writing - Andreas...
Why I don’t give investment advice When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for...
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When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for confirmation that what they do is great (it’s usually not) or some sort of secret sauce for outperforming the market (which doesn’t exist). So people are inevitably disappointed by the...
A Beautiful Site
JSON Feed JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec,...
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JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec, introduced just last week, but it's been getting some major coverage and a number of applications have already started supporting it. Since Postleaf was built for the modern...
Eric Bailey
Don’t use custom CSS mouse cursors I believe that letting CSS load a custom cursor was a mistake. This might seem like a niche...
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over a year ago
I believe that letting CSS load a custom cursor was a mistake. This might seem like a niche complaint, and you know what? It is. But it’s also an important one. One of the best things about CSS is that it lets us make websites and web apps look like anything we can dream up. One...
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writing Advice Some thoughts on writing your first few writings
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Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login" Most computer systems we interact with have an auth system of some kind. The problem is, that...
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a year ago
Most computer systems we interact with have an auth system of some kind. The problem is, that sentence is at best unclear and at worst nonsense. "Auth" can mean at least two things: authentication or authorization1. Which do we mean for an "auth system"? It's never perfectly...
charity.wtf
Deploys Are The ✨WRONG✨ Way To Change User Experience This piece was first published on the honeycomb.io blog on 2023-03-08. …. I’m...
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This piece was first published on the honeycomb.io blog on 2023-03-08. …. I’m no stranger to ranting about deploys. But there’s one thing I haven’t sufficiently ranted about yet, which is this: Deploying software is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad way to go about the...
Yale e360
Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped1 by the mention of...
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a year ago
Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped1 by the mention of Bleichenbacher's attack on RSA. This is cool, how does it work? I had to understand, and to understand something, I usually have to build it. Well, friends, that is what I did. I implemented RSA...
Making software...
Clickable Links Inside XML Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I...
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Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
David Crawshaw
Under the heel of the spirit "Everybody thought Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon were spending four-and-a-half percent of the...
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"Everybody thought Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon were spending four-and-a-half percent of the federal budget each year to prove that America owned Science. This was all a fiction. The Apollo Program was an elaborate demonstration of how even the blandest among us are under the...
Joel Gascoigne
I am an investor in 9 companies: How and why I started angel investing A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written...
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over a year ago
A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written about yet. So here we are.
Vadim Kravcenko
How much equity should a CTO ask for? This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s...
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over a year ago
This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s especially awesome […] The post How much equity should a CTO ask for? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Smart Bear
Adjacency Matrix: How to expand after PMF A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key...
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A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key to expanding without overreaching.
Maggie Appleton
Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse
a year ago
samwho.dev
API Design: In The Wild (part 2) In a previous post we looked at some real-world APIs, highlighting the good and the bad, and in this...
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over a year ago
In a previous post we looked at some real-world APIs, highlighting the good and the bad, and in this post we’re going to do the same! › Python’s datetime.datetime Most experienced Pythonistas have written something like this at some point in their career: import datetime now =...
David Heinemeier...
The spells are spent They just don't work any more, those baseless accusations that anyone we disagree with is a racist,...
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They just don't work any more, those baseless accusations that anyone we disagree with is a racist, misogynist, fascist. After being invoked in en masse and in vain for the better part of the past decade, their power to shock and awe is finally gone. All that's left is a weak...
TokyoDev
Employer of Record (EOR) Services in Japan EoR. Few employers seems to fully understand how it works, and even fewer working professionals have...
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over a year ago
EoR. Few employers seems to fully understand how it works, and even fewer working professionals have ever heard of it. So, what is this three-letter mystery acronym, and how can it help us swing the doors wide open on business building in Japan? Let’s have a look. ## What...
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a “downgrade” in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
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...
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a year ago
The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating stuff, thanks for the contribution!
macwright.com
Make a ViewPlugin configurable in CodeMirror by () ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror...
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ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror view. You use a Facet. Great example in JupyterLab. Like everything in CodeMirror, this lets you be super flexible with how configuration works - it is designed with multiple...
Yale e360
Running an Effective Book Club at Work Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for learning. And they're great for group learning, too! We've run a book club at work a few times. Some sessions were more successful than others. The main way our book clubs faltered...
macwright.com
Introducing the blogroll This website has a new section: blogroll.opml! A blogroll is a list of blogs - a lightweight way of...
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4 months ago
This website has a new section: blogroll.opml! A blogroll is a list of blogs - a lightweight way of people recommending other people’s writing on the indieweb. What it includes The blogs that I included are just sampled from my many RSS subscriptions that I keep in my Feedbin...
Don Melton
Sweet sixteen for Safari and WebKit On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It...
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On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same project with me. For that reason, Ken and I have always considered our start date to be when Safari and...
Eric Bailey
Visit for a surprise Could spoiling a joke be an accessibility issue? You better believe it. Web Content Accessibility...
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over a year ago
Could spoiling a joke be an accessibility issue? You better believe it. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Success Criterion 2.4.4: Link Purpose (In Context) instructs us to ensure that a link’s accessible name makes sense when separated from its surrounding context. It’s why...
Tinloof - Blog
Website migration 101: transitioning to a headless CMS In this article, we share insights gleaned from migrating websites created with WordPress, Hubspot...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this article, we share insights gleaned from migrating websites created with WordPress, Hubspot CMS, Webflow, and similar tools, to a headless CMS setup.
Seán Barry
Presentation: Pushing Compute to the Browser Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose...
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over a year ago
Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose technical and real-world problems. Using a number of modern solutions like HTTP 2, web workers and careful state management with redux we can offload the work to the browser and deliver...
Liz Denys
A better grumpy fuzzball cake: just one of the many reasons I love buttercream more than fondant Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted...
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over a year ago
Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted primarily with rolled fondant, a dough-like frosting that is made with gelatin, food-grade glycerine, and the usual frosting suspects. But I don't love the taste or texture of fondant....
TokyoDev
Good Design Sells Open Source I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to [Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a...
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over a year ago
I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to [Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a blogging framework backed by the static site generator [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/). I first read about Octopress a couple of weeks ago on Hacker News. Although Octopress appealed...
Blog of Simple...
How does the HIPAA compare to the CCPA and GDPR?
a year ago
TokyoDev
Heroku + Travis CI: Tokyo Rubyist Meetup Report While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist...
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over a year ago
While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist Meetup](https://trbmeetup.doorkeeper.jp), thanks to all the great people who attended, we were able to turn it into a lively event. Anchoring the night were presentations about...
Steve Klabnik
redis-namespace 1.3.1 security release
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Borrow checking, escape analysis, and the generational hypothesis
over a year ago
Irrational...
Public company comparables. A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss statement, which is a foundational executive...
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A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss statement, which is a foundational executive skill. I also subsequently wrote about ways to measure your engineering organization. Despite having written those, I still spend a lot of time wondering about effective ways to...
A Beautiful Site
A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC" Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A...
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over a year ago
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A Beautiful Site, LLC. is officially a limited liability company. This marks the new beginning of a period of growth for ABS, which has been, until now, a sole proprietorship. In the...
Blog of Simple...
Is Google Analytics CCPA-compliant?
over a year ago
blag
Snapshot Testing A smoll intro to snapshot testing
a year ago
Yale e360
Procrastinating on my side project by torturing databases One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just...
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One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just a fun diversion. I ran into that recently for a side project I'm working on. It wasn't really necessary to test database options semi-rigorously, but here we are. This project is...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Cost of Avoiding Annoyance tl;dr Living with annoying technological constraints might be less costly than maintaining the...
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tl;dr Living with annoying technological constraints might be less costly than maintaining the sophisticated workarounds we create to avoid them. I really enjoyed this well-reasoned article explaining why htmx, the open-source hypermedia JS framework, does not have a build...
Maggie Appleton
The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
over a year ago
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...
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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.
A Beautiful Site
Archiving Postleaf Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it back as something different. Maybe an open source project. Maybe a SaaS product. I'm not sure at this point. The world still needs a simple platform to encourage blogging and the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Solve CORS once and for all with Netlify Dev _Published on [Alligator.io](https://alligator.io/nodejs/solve-cors-once-and-for-all-netlify-dev/)_
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
HTML Web Components I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me. “Web...
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a year ago
I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me. “Web components” sounded like the web platform’s equivalent to “React components”. JSX had <MyComponent> and now the web had <my-component>. But when you try building web components...
Joel Gascoigne
3 reasons you shouldn&#x27;t outsource your startup, and what to do instead One of my favorite things to do is to help others who are at an earlier...
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over a year ago
One of my favorite things to do is to help others who are at an earlier stage [https://joel.is/why-im-helping-startup-founders/] of the startup journey. I had a lot of false starts before Buffer. I enjoy sharing my lessons from those failed attempts, and I also enjoy getting my...
HTMHell
Adding Complementary Performance Data to Your Site Getting performance data from real users can transform assumptions about how a user experiences a...
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over a year ago
Getting performance data from real users can transform assumptions about how a user experiences a site into objective, actionable information. In the last two years, there has been increased awareness of web performance thanks to Google's Core Web Vitals (CWV) metrics. These...
Computer Things
Logic for Programmers now in early access! I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in...
a year ago
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a year ago
I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in early access, it's almost 20,000 words, has 30 exercises, and covers a wide variety of logic applications: Property testing Functional correctness and contracts Formal...
Josh Comeau's blog
How To Learn Stuff Quickly As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can...
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over a year ago
As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools, we'll become so much more effective at our job. It's sort of a superpower.
Yale e360
If it never breaks, you're doing it wrong When the power goes out, most people are understanding. Yet the most livid I've seen people is when...
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a year ago
When the power goes out, most people are understanding. Yet the most livid I've seen people is when web apps or computers they use have a bug or go down. But most of the time, it's a really bad sign if this never happens1. I was talking to my dad about this recently. For most of...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Million Little Secrets I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in...
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4 months ago
I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in this blog post, I want to dig into some of the more interesting details! If you’re interested in animations/interactions, you’ll want to check this one out; I share a bunch of my...
Oxide Computer...
Moore's Scofflaws Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course...
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a year ago
Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it...
Charles Chen
Cheap and Easy Way to Scrape Sites for LLM Processing If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started...
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a year ago
If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started with just a few lines of code.
samwho.dev
API Design: Optional Parameters When we write functions, it's common to want to give the user options to suit a range of use-cases....
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When we write functions, it's common to want to give the user options to suit a range of use-cases. There are good ways and bad ways of doing it, and this post is going to explore them. › Guiding principles API design is hard. A good API needs to be: Easy to change without...
tonsky.me
Talk: Clj-reload: A smarter way to reload code @ In Clojure, we all love the REPL. We love playing with our code and seeing results applied live...
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In Clojure, we all love the REPL. We love playing with our code and seeing results applied live without ever restarting the app. But in any project, there comes a time when your state becomes more complex than a simple set of functions. Evaluating the buffer does not...
Vadim Kravcenko
The silent majority The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign. In...
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over a year ago
The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign. In this usage, it referred […] The post The silent majority appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Steve Klabnik
I got hit by a car today
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project: start a new...
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When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project: start a new feature, or add a command line argument parser? We opted for the latter, because it had to happen eventually and it was more well bounded. It ended up having a lot of depth! We...
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HogMail #18: What can SaaS learn from the New York Times? Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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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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.
elementary Blog
It's Disability Pride Month! Let's Get Accessible This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and...
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This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and plenty of OS 8 news. Disability Pride Month It’s disability pride month, which means making space to talk about how we can build communities and systems that better accommodate...
Yale e360
RC Week 12: What's Next, and Speedrunning Crafting Interpreters And that's it. My batch at RC ended yesterday. I have so many thoughts and feelings from this time,...
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over a year ago
And that's it. My batch at RC ended yesterday. I have so many thoughts and feelings from this time, but it's going to take time to coalesce them all. I'll write up my Return Statement1 in a week or two, but for now, here's what I was up to the last week! Mostly, this last week...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Can we useRef, but without the .current? Let's try! Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've...
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over a year ago
Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've used it instead of useState to optimize re-renders. But typing ref.current over and over is just annoying. Come on, Vladimir, startX.current is just the same as this.startX in a...
Josh Collinsworth
The self-fulfilling prophecy of React The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will...
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The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?
Irrational...
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a year ago
macwright.com
Web pages and video games An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are...
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a year ago
An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are so amazing and fast?” I’ve thought about it more than I’d like. Anyway, here are some reasons: Web pages are just-in-time delivered, with no installation required. Modern video...
David Heinemeier...
The reality of the Danish fairytale Denmark has long ranked high on the list of societies that American liberals dream about turning the...
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Denmark has long ranked high on the list of societies that American liberals dream about turning the United States into. And for many good reasons. Education is state-funded, and students are even paid a stipend to go to university. Health care is equally free of individual...
Blog - Bitfield...
Being a good co-worker is your job now In the final part of this series on the world of work, we’ll talk about how not to suck at...
a year ago
TokyoDev
How Cybozu Built an International Engineering Team While domestically quite successful, Cybozu struggled to attract international customers—until they...
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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...
Irrational...
Notes on The Crux The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing...
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The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing many of the same core ideas but in a more readable format, and a clearer target to take down: the incoherent outputs of process and goal-driven strategy. Recently, I’ve been looking...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Guest Appearance on ShopTalk Show #605 Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all...
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Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all things web. The conversation was fun and casual, mostly around topics I’ve written about recently — which is good, since those are topics I should (presumably) be able to speak on at...
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Learnings from Elon People hate or love him. Regardless, I read the Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson over...
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People hate or love him. Regardless, I read the Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson over Christmas and here are some lessons that we can take from…
Ralph Ammer
Why study Philosophy? Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful. The post Why study Philosophy?...
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Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful. The post Why study Philosophy? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Julia Evans
Terminal colours are tricky Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was...
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Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder what about terminal colours made it so hard. So I asked people on Mastodon what problems they’ve run into with colours in the...
Marco.org
Introducing Voice Boost 2: Remaster your podcasts The latest update to Overcast includes a feature that I’m especially proud of that took over a year...
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The latest update to Overcast includes a feature that I’m especially proud of that took over a year to build. Voice Boost 2 is an all-new audio engine that includes professional-grade, mastering-quality loudness normalization. When I first introduced Overcast in 2014, Voice Boost...
samwho.dev
Language Interoperability From the Ground Up How does a function in Ruby call a function in C? How does a function in Kotlin call a function in...
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How does a function in Ruby call a function in C? How does a function in Kotlin call a function in Java? It's no secret that you can call functions in one programming language from another. Not only is it possible, it can be done in multiple ways. But how does it actually...
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March 2020 Update Hello friends! I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this unprecedented time in...
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Hello friends! I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this unprecedented time in which we are all united. Our thoughts go out to everyone working hard to help those in need. We wish you and your families health and resilience. Hard at work…​ and growing A lot...
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Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to...
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Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to run both OpenBSD and some form of Linux variation on my personal machines. Most times, I would default to running one OS on bare metal, while the other would simply live in a VM....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Hedge Words Affirm Creative, Imaginative Thinking Mandy’s note piqued my interest so much, I started reading Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz. So far, I...
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Mandy’s note piqued my interest so much, I started reading Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz. So far, I love it! (I hope to write more about it once I’ve finished, but I’m afraid I won’t because the whole book is underlined in red pencil and I wouldn’t know where to start.) As...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note April 2023: Ploma Rendering Experiments Prototyping a few uses of dynamic ink using Dan Amelang and Evelyn Eastmond’s Ploma as the renderer.
over a year ago
charity.wtf
In Praise of “Normal” Engineers This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February...
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This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engineering teams” . It was later picked up by IEEE Spectrum (!!!), who scrapped most of the...
the singularity is...
Resentment If you give some monkeys a slice of cucumber each, they are all pretty happy. Then you give one...
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If you give some monkeys a slice of cucumber each, they are all pretty happy. Then you give one monkey a grape, and nobody is happy with their cucumber any more. They might even throw the slices back at the experimenter. He got a god damned grape this is bullshit I don’t want a...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Phase 2 Gestures Some of the techniques we use to handle events and gestures in our prototypes
a year ago
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Nov 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Why did Google close its coding competitions after 20 years? Why did the company do so? I’ve talked with people involved in organizing the competition for more...
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Making software...
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big...
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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of "brutalist" or minimalist design, so I'm always inspired...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: CPython Memory Management Internals Last week we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython’s main bytecode interpreter...
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Last week we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython’s main bytecode interpreter (the VM), and the response from the attendees has been very encouraging. Next, I want to talk about how CPython implements memory management in its runtime. Most programming...
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Recurse Center Day 13: Why 'Raft'? I started re-reading Raft and I learned why it is called so!
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blog Posts vs. Social Posts From Emil Kowalski’s newsletter (my Feedbin cache for your convenience): I started writing more blog...
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From Emil Kowalski’s newsletter (my Feedbin cache for your convenience): I started writing more blog posts recently. I like it because it's different than X. You get a spike of views when you share something on X, but that dies off quickly. If you provide great value with your...
alexwlchan
Getting an Important Internet Checkmark to follow your cursor Are you an Important Brand? Do you have an Internet Presence? Do you worry about being Impersonated...
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Are you an Important Brand? Do you have an Internet Presence? Do you worry about being Impersonated Or Parodied Online? Then I may have something for you. On your social media, you can bask in the warmth of an Important Internet Checkmark which tells your users that they’re...
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Compilers Copout Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of...
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Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of it but there's too much I want to do and I know I'm just going to do a shit job at everything by spreading my self thin and also putting an intense gun to my head.
The Changelog
Lessons of Social Media from BBSs In the recent article The Internet Origin Story You Know Is Wrong, I was somewhat surprised to see...
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In the recent article The Internet Origin Story You Know Is Wrong, I was somewhat surprised to see the argument that BBSs are a part of the Internet origin story that is often omitted. Surprised because I was there for BBSs, and even ran one, and didn’t really consider them part...
Tinker, Tamper,...
Should I Use JWTs For Authentication Tokens? No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about....
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No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about. JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens, a reasonably well defined standard for authenticated tokens. Specifically they have a header with format information, a payload, and a signature or...
Basta’s Notes
I'm going to run for president And I want you to be angry, too
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Liz Denys
Curried pumpkin soup Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the...
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Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the first thing that comes to mind in winter is creamy squash soups. In the haze of moving, Mystery Hunt, and working on writing 6.042 problems this IAP, I somehow neglected making soup...
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: VanMoof files for bankruptcy protection The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike...
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The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike owners, they could face the risk of their bikes being bricked if they don't take prompt action.
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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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?”...
Blog System/5
Lessons along the EndBOX journey How a wild side-quest became the source of many of the articles you’ve read—and have come to...
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How a wild side-quest became the source of many of the articles you’ve read—and have come to expect—in this publication
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Developer Exception Engineering It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the...
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It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the uncomfortable ones.
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React Single File Components Are Here React has long eschewed convention in favor of the extreme flexibility of JS. It is time for the...
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React has long eschewed convention in favor of the extreme flexibility of JS. It is time for the next level in React authorship formats.
Ralph Ammer
How to draw ideas Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process...
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Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process drawing can play four different roles. Let’s say, we want to come up with ideas for a new flower pot. 1. Study: Fill your mind To prepare for our ideation we first draw what we want...
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Frontend filters & backend SQL - A chat with Eric Duong, Sam Winslow, James Greenhill, and Buddy... By: Engineering @ PostHog Eric: I'll just do it on my computer, upload it, and then toss it later....
over a year ago
the singularity is...
Imitation Learning 7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea. Gather tons of human driving data, state action...
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7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea. Gather tons of human driving data, state action pairs: (S_t, A_t) Train a supervised model f(S_t) -> A_t Drive cars with that model. The exact original formulation was a model that predicts steering angle from image, then used a...
Sometimes It Works...
Don’t Fail at Failing! Don’t Fail at Failing! The Cost of Failure ¶Don’t Fail at Failing! “Fail fast, fail often.” “If you...
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Don’t Fail at Failing! The Cost of Failure ¶Don’t Fail at Failing! “Fail fast, fail often.” “If you don’t fail, you won’t succeed.” “Fail! Fail! FAIL!” We are in a fail culture. Not just around Silicon Valley, startups and the whole process of build-test-refine product...
Contraption Co.
Joining Chroma Building memory for AI applications
5 months ago
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 12, 2016: women's financial planning Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. Today's ride home from choir practice: Former Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck launched Ellevest yesterday. Ellevest differs from other investment platforms...
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: November 2022 California general election Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While preparing for this election, I...
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Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While preparing for this election, I consulted: San Francisco Chronicle voter guide SPUR endorsements GrowSF voter guide, which links to questionnaires from many local candidates that are far more detailed than their...
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Learn In Public The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • James's Notes James Lindenbaum’s notes on possible extensions to Crosscut
over a year ago
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Array 1.29.0 Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New...
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Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New features include multivariate feature flags, private projects and DAU/WAU/MAU graphs.
37signals Dev
Prometheus metrics with Rails and Kamal We use Prometheus metrics quite heavily at 37signals nowadays. They’re used to monitor a variety of...
a year ago
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We use Prometheus metrics quite heavily at 37signals nowadays. They’re used to monitor a variety of components in our infrastructure, such as MySQL, Redis and the servers hosting our applications. My colleague, Victor, previously wrote in detail about Prometheus metrics at...
Making software...
Looping Through Jekyll Collections Looping Through Jekyll Collections 2022-08-12 I recently needed to add a couple new items to my...
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Looping Through Jekyll Collections 2022-08-12 I recently needed to add a couple new items to my wife's personal recipe website (cookingwith.casa) which I hadn't touched in quite a while. The Jekyll build still worked fine, but I realized I was statically adding each collection by...
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...
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...
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The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating stuff, thanks for the contribution!
A Beautiful Site
Get comfortable with abstraction I stumbled across a tweet the other day and it's been resonating in my mind ever since. Mostly...
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I stumbled across a tweet the other day and it's been resonating in my mind ever since. Mostly because it's something I tend to have a problem with. You see, I have this thing where I try really hard to understand exactly how something works—all the way down to the last nut and...
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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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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
Complacency on the Front End We live in a world where front end developers are fatigued from the framework wars. Most have...
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over a year ago
We live in a world where front end developers are fatigued from the framework wars. Most have settled into a niche — especially the React crowd — and they’re happy to not have to think outside that box. They are, by far, the hardest crowd to sell web components to. I'm not...
Liz Denys
Patina tissue box, 2024 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, matte copper patina glaze
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it,...
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My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it, this website is now generated with pure HTML & CSS. Although, generated isn’t the proper way to describe it anymore. Written is a better description. No more Markdown files. No...
The Pragmatic...
Inside Agoda’s Private Cloud - Exclusive An overview of the hardware the company uses inside its private cloud, a summary of their cloud...
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over a year ago
An overview of the hardware the company uses inside its private cloud, a summary of their cloud strategy, and whether or not to onboard to the cloud.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Traffic Engineering What is Traffic Engineering?
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
December 2023
a year ago
macwright.com
Recently What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty...
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What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty busy! Things are good. Building products is fun but also a lot of work. Pretty excited about what I’m working on. Ready for winter to end. Reading I enjoyed reading Ross Barkan’s...
Blog System/5
Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than...
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NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?
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...
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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...
Joel Gascoigne
6 things I do to be consistently happy * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Now that it’s...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Now that it’s almost two years since I first had the idea for Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], and with the year and a half before that which I worked on my previous startup, I’ve started to notice...
Steve Klabnik
Resque 1.25.0.pre has been released
over a year ago
Dan Quach Blog
Accurate Predictions In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air....
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In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air. Somewhere midway through this book, this paragraph stood out to me: “Either way, until 2022, Americans will live in an acutely changed world—they will be wearing masks, for example,...
Jake Zimmerman
What if typing on phones was fast?
7 months ago
Charles Chen
The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 1 The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How to stop thinking as an engineer and start thinking like a business man? Uff, this is a tough one. I can say for sure — it’s possible, everything can be learned. I do...
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Uff, this is a tough one. I can say for sure — it’s possible, everything can be learned. I do […] The post How to stop thinking as an engineer and start thinking like a business man? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TokyoDev
Bank Account, Mobile Number, Apartment - Which Comes First after Moving to Japan? When you move to Japan for a long-term stay, you’ll need to set up some things when you get here - a...
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a year ago
When you move to Japan for a long-term stay, you’ll need to set up some things when you get here - a place to live, a mobile number, a bank account, etc. And this is where you may encounter the following chicken-and-egg problem. > To rent an apartment, you need a mobile...
Founder's blog
ChatGPT won't "kill Google" because Google is already dead I have just conducted an experiment where I forced myself to use Bing's new chat-based search for...
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I have just conducted an experiment where I forced myself to use Bing's new chat-based search for almost a week, and spoiler alert: I loved it. But I'll get into that later. Googling without Google When was the last time you searched Google and found the answer on the...
Ralph Ammer
How to see beauty Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was...
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Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was alive with chatter and the joy of yet another sunny day ahead. I made my way through tourists, neighbourhood regulars and other early birds. To escape the buzz, I stepped into the...
A Smart Bear
Real Unfair Advantages It's not a question of if someone copies your business idea, it's when.
over a year ago
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How To Learn In Private Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn...
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Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn In Public. The majority of the time you are still learning in private. Here are some thoughts on how to do it well.
Charles Chen
TypeScript is not a Programming Language If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots Sketchy ideas for interfaces that play with the novel capabilities of language models
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
a11y-syntax-highlighting has been updated I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s...
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I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s solarized-prism-theme for PrismJS. To not bury the lede, the new update: Supports Forced Colors mode, Is encapsulated in a Cascade Layer, Uses Custom Properties, Groups its selectors using the...
Founder's blog
SQL is the most long lasting skill in tech In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front...
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In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front page: "Which technology is worth learning in 2020?" And the most "upvoted" answer was: Learn how to really use a relational database, relational data modeling, and SQL Well,...
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Counterintuitive lessons about our pricing Imagine being able to grow twice as fast with just a few hours of work. Changing your pricing has a...
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Imagine being able to grow twice as fast with just a few hours of work. Changing your pricing has a real chance to get you there. Here is a breakdown…
Computer Things
"Integration tests" are just vibes New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software...
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New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software cause us to miss deadlines, and how we can address some of them. Patreon here. "Integration tests" are just vibes You should write more unit tests than integration tests. You should...
Words and Buttons...
Yet another alternative to floating point numbers This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input...
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This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input error but keep computational error under control as well.
Irrational...
Diagnosis in engineering strategy. Once you’ve written your strategy’s exploration, the next step is working on its...
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Once you’ve written your strategy’s exploration, the next step is working on its diagnosis. Diagnosis is understanding the constraints and challenges your strategy needs to address. In particular, it’s about doing that understanding while slowing yourself down from deciding how...
David Heinemeier...
Workfeed goes to America During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd...
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During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd work towards becoming profitable, remaining in the country, and avoiding the VC timebomb. The one that has already fulfilled all the objectives is Workfeed, and now they're ready to...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 05 · Edit groups “Formality on demand” allows writers to choose the level of structure they want in their...
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“Formality on demand” allows writers to choose the level of structure they want in their collaboration, and avoid needless ceremony.
Making software...
Cut Your Forms in Half Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
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over a year ago
Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don't pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible. Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
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Cheatsheet for moving from Master to Main Notes I have collected on how to renaming the Git default/primary branch
over a year ago
Yale e360
[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at...
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I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at first -- I'm a big fan of Schneier's posts online, but I found this randomly at the library and I was hoping not to be disappointed. In the end, it was well worth the read. The book...
TokyoDev
A Guide to Salary Negotiations in Japan’s Tech Industry When it comes to salary negotiations in Japan’s tech industry, I’ve been on both sides of the table....
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When it comes to salary negotiations in Japan’s tech industry, I’ve been on both sides of the table. I’ve worked as a recruiter sourcing candidates from around the world for a Japanese autonomous driving tech company, and have helped hundreds of English-speaking expats in secure...
The Codist
How To Know When It's Time To Go I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not...
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I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not failing ability in any way, but after a year of consideration, I realized I didn't care to do it anymore. Everyone will eventually reach a point at
Making software...
ET-Jekyll Theme ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann's awesome Tufte CSS - which...
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ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann's awesome Tufte CSS - which takes it's style and inspiration from the wonderful book and handout designs of Edward Tufte. The differences are subtle when comparing my variation to Tufte CSS, but these...
A Smart Bear
When you have nothing: How to find potential customers to interview How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a...
6 months ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Accessible Animations in React I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In...
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I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In this tutorial, we'll see how to ensure that we respect user preferences, and create animations that can be disabled.
Stephen Wolfram...
Observer Theory The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But...
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The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it’s about how we take the world as it is, and derive from it the impression of it that we have in our minds. We might have thought that we could do science “purely […]
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Networking Essentials: DNS Domain names, you buy them, you sell them, but how do they work?
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Extreme #include discipline for C++ code C++ takes long to compile There is more than one reason for it but one of the reasons is excessive...
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C++ takes long to compile There is more than one reason for it but one of the reasons is excessive re-parsing of the same .h header files. In SumatraPDF I’m using an extreme #include discipline to keep compilation times in check. The rule is simple: a .h file cannot #include...
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How to choose job titles in your early stage startup One huge mistake some startups make is using titles to establish and reinforce hierarchy. This is...
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One huge mistake some startups make is using titles to establish and reinforce hierarchy. This is dangerous for two reasons: Iteration and speed…
Tinloof - Blog
Figma variables: tips from 3 scenarios Figma variables are a feature let you reuse and manage design elements more easily. Instead of...
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Figma variables are a feature let you reuse and manage design elements more easily. Instead of manually updating each instance of a design element, you can set a variable, like a color or padding, and apply it across your project. If you want to make a change, you update the...
Ferd.ca
A Distributed Systems Reading List 2024/02/07 A Distributed Systems Reading List This document contains various resources and quick...
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2024/02/07 A Distributed Systems Reading List This document contains various resources and quick definition of a lot of background information behind distributed systems. It is not complete, even though it is kinda sorta detailed. I had written it some time in 2019 when coworkers...
The History of the...
It’s Lists All the Way Down When you get down to it, a lot of the web is just lists. And that's kind of what it was meant...
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When you get down to it, a lot of the web is just lists. And that's kind of what it was meant for. The post It’s Lists All the Way Down appeared first on The History of the Web.
Steve Klabnik
Goals for 2011
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Irrational...
systems-mcp: generate systems models via LLM Back in 2018, I wrote lethain/systems as a domain-specific language for writing runnable systems...
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Back in 2018, I wrote lethain/systems as a domain-specific language for writing runnable systems models, and introduced it with this blog post modeling a hiring funnel. While it’s far from a perfect system, I’ve gotten a lot of value out of it over the last seven years, because...
A Beautiful Site
Getting localized month and day names in the browser JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip —...
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JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app. I've...
Grant Slatton
Lightweight property-based testing at Row Zero How we verify correctness
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Master of my domain Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more...
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Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more hard-learned lessons from my own horrible career.
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2025-06-25 Wed: Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and...
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In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and files on disk. This allows editing files in dev tools and having those changes saved to a file, which is handy. Early in 2025 they’ve added a way to automatically configure this...
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Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They...
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I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They are:   1. Chart the course Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone...
Vadim Kravcenko
📈 The Toxic Grind There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
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There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […] The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Chasing Performance Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been...
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Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been redesigned since. I’m keeping this article up as a point of reference. So I decided to participate in Smashing Mag’s Front End Performance Challenge, not only for the potential of...
David Heinemeier...
Why don't more people use Linux? A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?"...
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A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?" And it's a fair question! It intuitively rings true until you give it a moment's consideration. Linux is even free, so what's stopping mass adoption, if it's actually better? My...
Maggie Appleton
The Best Illustration Books and Courses My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
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David Crawshaw
2015-11-16 "Where the jury actually comes out on Go may take years to determine. There are no clear formal...
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"Where the jury actually comes out on Go may take years to determine. There are no clear formal methods of measurement for how 'good' a language is, so it mostly happens by default as popular systems thrive and unpopular ones wither and...
A small freedom area...
Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up watching a large...
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As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up watching a large number of video tutorials on the subject. Even though the quality of the content is pretty variable, I'm very grateful to the creators for it. That being said, I couldn't help...
Steve Klabnik
Real, modern Ruby development
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David Heinemeier...
Merchants of complexity It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course,...
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It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course, everyone says they want something simple, but the way they buy reveals that they usually don't. This is the secret that the merchants of complexity have long since figured out. That...
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"No Code" Is A Lie _Originally published on [the Webflow blog](https://webflow.com/blog/no-code-is-a-lie)._
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Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 2 This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See [Day 1...
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This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See [Day 1 here](https://dev.to/swyx/make-your-own-dev-to-cms-livestream-part-1-2ad1)
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How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different? Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
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Steve Klabnik
Five years with Rust
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Alex MacCaw
Pain I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He...
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I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He shared an excellent insight about dealing with pain that I believe everyone should hear. So here it is: We all experience pain caused by others. Perhaps even earlier today
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Calling Grok, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter API from the browser Here’s what I learned about calling LLM APIs from the browser when building AI chat functionality in...
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Here’s what I learned about calling LLM APIs from the browser when building AI chat functionality in my note taking app Edna. The API I care about is getting LLM response to a question in a streaming way. OpenAI pioneered this and created...
macwright.com
Recently Well, I missed a Recently post on January 1st, so scratch any other resolutions, I’ll just live my...
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Well, I missed a Recently post on January 1st, so scratch any other resolutions, I’ll just live my life. Reading In loving memory of the square checkbox is the kind of UX rant I’m there for. Interfaces that have different behaviors should look different, and familiar styles are...
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Rails World and Rails 8 in 2024 The first major Rails conference on the European continent in over a decade was a smashing success...
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The first major Rails conference on the European continent in over a decade was a smashing success this past October in Amsterdam. Not only did the conference sell out more than 700 tickets in less than 40 minutes, but it was the atmosphere from those in attendance that really...
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“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the...
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I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal...
Steve Klabnik
Hypermedia API reading list
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A Beautiful Site
Is it possible to be an introverted entrepreneur? A tweet by Remy Sharp sparked my thoughts about being an introvert and starting a company. I don't...
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A tweet by Remy Sharp sparked my thoughts about being an introvert and starting a company. I don't hate human beings, but I do tend to keep to myself. How has this impacted my ability to run a successful business? Launching a product is hard # If you don't have a good network,...
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Temporal Transparency Update Our 9th transparency update describing how we are shipping the upcoming Authentication feature
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Tinloof - Blog
Yeah hooks are good, but have you tried faster React Components? This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on...
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This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on performance issues but rather on getting comfortable and productive with it. The performance of a React application can be defined by how long the user should wait before seeing the UI...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to learn coding without a degree? Hey there, I’m always happy when someone new decides to join the software engineering field. If...
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Hey there, I’m always happy when someone new decides to join the software engineering field. If you’re used to browsing […] The post How to learn coding without a degree? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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The Collective Marshmallow Test Society is even harder than passing the marshmallow test. Instead of a single person, imagine 100...
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Society is even harder than passing the marshmallow test. Instead of a single person, imagine 100 people in a room. One marshmallow is placed on a table. If everyone can leave it alone for 15 minutes, everyone gets 2 marshmallows. But if just one person eats it, everyone gets...
Sometimes It Works...
Stuff to do when you’re not well Stuff to do when you’re not well Learn new stuff! ¶Stuff to do when you’re not well Last week I was...
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Stuff to do when you’re not well Learn new stuff! ¶Stuff to do when you’re not well Last week I was sick with a cold. I was basically indoors for 5 straight days (one of those actually in bed all day). I was also unable to sleep for a couple of nights. So I had a lot of extra...
The Codist
My Address Doesn't Fit, And Other Complaints So today, I decided to renew my driver's license online, like any modern person would. I started the...
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So today, I decided to renew my driver's license online, like any modern person would. I started the process by going to my state's driver's license website. The first page is to verify my home and mail addresses. Since nothing changed, I hit "
Josh Collinsworth
Goodbye, Griff. You were a good boy. A tribute to the member of our family we lost this weekend.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Domain Sins of My Youth I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project. At the...
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I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project. At the checkout screen, I realized it would cost me $105 to renew this domain for 5 years. Why 5 years? Right now my disposition is: if I plan on keeping a domain for as long as possible I...
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Celebrating a million copies of REWORK It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit...
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It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit the New York Times bestseller list right out the gate. In the first two years, it sold over 200,000 copies. And then... it just kept selling. Now it has passed one million copies...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why you Might Want to Extend React Components Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs....
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over a year ago
Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs. Use state managers (and their connector HOCs). Use render props. Do not inherit. Remember, composition over inheritance! Obey your guru. Once upon a time, a developer extended his...
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Array 1.38.0: Exports, subscriptions and session analysis PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved...
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PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved feature flag persistence and much more!
Letters of Note
Am I really writing it at all? Author Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, and to this day remains one of the greats in...
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Author Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, and to this day remains one of the greats in the world of crime fiction thanks to his creation of Philip Marlowe, the hardboiled detective who stars in many of his stories: The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The...
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Array 1.3.0 Another shiny new integration - PostHog now plays nicely with Android! Like what you see and...
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Another shiny new integration - PostHog now plays nicely with Android! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. Release notes…
Ink & Switch
Ink Note March 29, 2023: ink track update / thoughts on research direction We want a digital notebook that combines the best of hand-drawn sketching and note-taking with the...
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over a year ago
We want a digital notebook that combines the best of hand-drawn sketching and note-taking with the power of the dynamic computing medium.
Steve Klabnik
Introducing the rails-api project
over a year ago
Irrational...
When to write strategy, and how much? Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
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Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy. When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...