Jibran’s Perspective
Failure 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate
I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post.
This is...
15th Jun 2024
I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post.
This is a good failure. It has taught me things, lessons I can use in the future to avoid failing this way again.
But first a bit of context. What did I fail at?
In February of 2024 I...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your phone
Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security:
Securing your...
21st Jul 2018
Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security:
Securing your phone
We take our phones everywhere and trust them with a lot of sensitive information, but have we put enough thought into how to secure them? Liz and Geoffrey discuss different...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware July 2024
The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS...
15th Aug 2024
The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS terminal myself, so it was pretty interesting to see all the anti-tamper traces built into the product (thank you jackw01 for sharing it!). I wonder how effective these are, and...
37signals Dev
Turbo 8 released
We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework....
7th Feb 2024
We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board.
Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8:
Morphing...
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The last RailsConf
Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started...
7th May 2024
Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started with something like 400-600 attendees at the inaugural conference in Chicago in 2006, then just kept doubling year over year, as Rails went to the moon. If memory serves me right,...
A Smart Bear
Maybe not so much with the "optimization"
In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun...
22nd Mar 2026
In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun and value of creative work.
A Beautiful Site
GIF, JPEG or PNG? Using images on the web
This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on...
29th Apr 2007
This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on the Web, and how to use them effectively in your websites.
JPEG #
JPEG files are compressed images that maintain a balance of size versus quality. For example: More compression =...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Early simulations with GravityLoops
<![CDATA[GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS, can finally show something on...
13th Jul 2026
<![CDATA[GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS, can finally show something on the screen.
The program now animates a body of mass like the Moon interacting under gravity with a body of mass like the Earth. The dots in the simulation window here are the bodies...
Making software...
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero
2022-11-04
Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on...
4th Nov 2022
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero
2022-11-04
Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on setting up Pi-Hole with Eero and it seemed to help out a few people having troubles. With AdGuard Home recently popping up on the frontpage of HackerNews, I thought now would be a...
Joel Gascoigne
Steady yourself, those world-changing thoughts are not productive
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13th Feb 2011
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Whilst building my latest startup, which I’m glad to say is picking up nicely,
there have been times when things have started to go a little crazy. It might be
being featured in a big blog, lots...
A Beautiful Site
Parsing URLs in JavaScript
There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John...
24th Oct 2013
There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John Long over on GitHub. This technique works great, but the resulting search property will be a raw query string. This isn't very useful if you need to access certain variables in said...
Maggie Appleton
On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars
How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
13th Apr 2024
How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in October - Switched my daily driver Aeropress coffee recipe to this one by Jonathan Gagné. It p...
Blog - Bitfield...
Suite smells: undertesting and overtesting
Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests
too optimistic...
8th Dec 2024
Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests
too optimistic (assuming the code already works), or too persnickety
(testing the irrelevant)?
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2025
The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I...
30th Oct 2025
The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I really can’t get enough of how the whole device is integrated with a multi-layer stacked PCB. I imagine that inside the middle of the stack there could be some interesting circuitry...
Stephen Wolfram...
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
27th Apr 2023
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
Maggie Appleton
Programmable Notes
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
18th Mar 2022
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
Engineer’s Codex
Everyone is a Staff Engineer Now
Engineer’s Codex is a newsletter about real-world engineering.
22nd Dec 2025
Engineer’s Codex is a newsletter about real-world engineering.
Jordan Eldredge's...
Free Edition of Charles Gounod’s Le Crucifix
I typeset a Creative Commons edition of Charles Gounod's a cappella choral work 'Le Crucifix'.
1st Oct 2013
I typeset a Creative Commons edition of Charles Gounod's a cappella choral work 'Le Crucifix'.
charity.wtf
LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development
Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on September 20th, 2023 Our industry is in the early days of...
20th Sep 2023
Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on September 20th, 2023 Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. Many software engineers are...
Confessions of a...
Big O vs Hardware: Better Complexity ≠ Better Performance
Why Your O(log n) Algorithm Might Lose to O(n)
3rd Aug 2025
Why Your O(log n) Algorithm Might Lose to O(n)
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. June 2024
ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed...
5th Jun 2024
ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed improvements to the site. Hope you enjoy!
David Heinemeier...
Delusional dreams of excess freedom
Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they...
6th Jan 2025
Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer". And while I sorta agree, I think the opposite position also has its appeal: That believing in a material fix to the problem of...
Boot.dev Blog
Qvault is moving to Boot.dev
We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard...
7th Apr 2022
We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard at work bootstrapping on online computer science bootcamp. Qvault (now Boot.dev) is a simple CS curriculum where our students build real projects using modern programming...
Remains of the Day
My first podcast appearance
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He...
10th Jan 2018
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He mentioned some of the other people he'd had on, so many of whom I admire, and I thought he had emailed the wrong person. But no, he had done his research and knew a lot about my...
blag
Snapshot Testing
A smoll intro to snapshot testing
1st Mar 2024
A smoll intro to snapshot testing
David Crawshaw
I am building a cloud
I am building a cloud
2026-04-22
Today is fundraising . As is the nature of writing for a larger...
22nd Apr 2026
I am building a cloud
2026-04-22
Today is fundraising . As is the nature of writing for a larger audience, it is a formal, safe announcement. As it should be. Writing must necessarily become impersonal at scale. But I would like to write something personal about why I am doing...
Grant Slatton
Rust Macros: Zero to Hero
A comprehensive guide on Rust macros
1st Sep 2024
A comprehensive guide on Rust macros
Buttondown's blog
March updates
We have lots of great new updates in store!
2nd Mar 2019
We have lots of great new updates in store!
Buttondown's blog
What email will look like in the future
On patching a 1981-era system mid-flight
1st May 2026
On patching a 1981-era system mid-flight
Tony Finch's blog
Constructing a four-point egg
For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating
elliptical and ovoid shapes. The...
29th Jan 2024
For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating
elliptical and ovoid shapes. The Wikipedia article for Moss’s
egg has a link to a tutorial on Euclidean Eggs by Freyja
Hreinsdóttir which (amongst other things) describes how to
construct the “four point egg”. I...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. March 2024
Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was...
28th Feb 2024
Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was wounded and beaten back, he escaped. We’ll be trying again later this month. Happy coding.
Liz Denys
Bacon cheddar scallion biscuit sliders
Earlier this week, I made bacon cheddar scallion biscuits because I had been craving an especially...
7th Nov 2010
Earlier this week, I made bacon cheddar scallion biscuits because I had been craving an especially savory breakfast bread option for those mornings that you wake up a little bit later than you'd like. Nothing too fancy, just fifteen traditional country biscuits except that I...
Buttondown's blog
Why Elliot Jay Stocks loves using Buttondown
Designer and typographer Elliot Jay Stocks uses Buttondown to power Behind the Scenes, his weekly...
2nd Apr 2024
Designer and typographer Elliot Jay Stocks uses Buttondown to power Behind the Scenes, his weekly newsletter about design, typography, and creativity.
TokyoDev
The 2020 International Developers in Japan results are live!
In November 2020, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan to better paint a...
27th Jan 2021
In November 2020, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan to better paint a picture of what the typical foreign developer life is like. [The results are now live](/insights/2020-developer-survey), please check them out!
With 362 people responding, I...
Julia Evans
Dealing with diverged git branches
Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is
when a local branch...
1st Feb 2024
Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is
when a local branch (like main) and a remote branch (maybe also called
main) have diverged.
There are two things that make this situation hard:
If you’re not used to interpreting git’s error messages,...
Boot.dev Blog
(Very) Basic Intro to Hash Functions (SHA-256, MD5, etc)
Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and...
1st Jan 2020
Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and retrieve data, among other useful computational tasks. As a practical example, all user passwords on boot.dev are hashed using Bcrypt to ensure that if an attacker were ever to gain...
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(incomplete) Getting your O1 Visa as Fast as Possible (2024)
I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience,...
11th May 2023
I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience, thoughts, and tips for those who may wish to make the same journey. Note that I am not a professional at this, I'm just a guy who recently went through it so dont rely on me for...
David Heinemeier...
There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last...
19th Jul 2023
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last year. The market as a whole is up, and if you're in the whole market, you're benefitting. But all of that upside, basically, belongs to just a handful of mega tech companies.
This...
Nelson's Weblog
PreSonus Eris speakers
PreSonus makes good
computer speakers. They’re marketed as “reference monitors” but at $100
for a...
8th Jun 2024
PreSonus makes good
computer speakers. They’re marketed as “reference monitors” but at $100
for a small set I have my doubts about their referenceness. Fortunately I
have a tin ear and they sound just fine for my computer playing YouTube
videos, compressed music, games. ...
Boot.dev Blog
Top 10 Books on Web Development in 2026
If you’re looking for good web development books, you’re probably interested in becoming a web...
5th Sep 2023
If you’re looking for good web development books, you’re probably interested in becoming a web developer. Makes sense – great pay, solid job security, and interesting work. But beyond that broad goal, you might be looking for some web development reading to satisfy other goals.
Neil Panchal
Bare Metal vs. Virtualization Performance
I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows:
Neil's Lab Server Specifications
CPU...
7th Dec 2021
I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows:
Neil's Lab Server Specifications
CPU Model
Intel® Xeon® Gold 6326, 16 Cores (32 Threads), 2.90 GHz (Base), 3.50 GHz (Turbo)
CPU Cooler
Noctua NH-U12S DX-4189
Motherboard
Supermicro...
Words and Buttons...
Gauss–Seidel visually explained
An interactive demo of the Gauss-Seidel method for solving linear equation systems. When and why...
21st Sep 2025
An interactive demo of the Gauss-Seidel method for solving linear equation systems. When and why does it work? And why, when you flip the equations, it suddenly stop working? You can now play and see.
charity.wtf
Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes)
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in...
7th Aug 2024
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dirty on the personal blog, and not bother bringing it up to the editorial standards...
Josh Comeau's blog
Chasing the Pixel-Perfect Dream
Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really,...
2nd Nov 2020
Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really, but that shouldn't discourage us! In this article, I'll show how I became designers' best friend by leveraging a series of tricks to get my implementation looking...
Code Of Honor
Twenty Years of Guild Wars
So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars...
30th Apr 2025
So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars on April 28, 2005, that it encouraged me to write this little bitty. I was heartened to see an article about Guild Wars in GameRant, which talked about the server infrastructure...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Visited San Francisco and rode in my first Waymo - Launched Find AI on Clay.com, ou...
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Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024
> note... this only represents my half of running AIE - the intention was to have Ben also write his...
29th Jun 2024
> note... this only represents my half of running AIE - the intention was to have Ben also write his side on the logistics and sponsorships but we never got round to it and its been a year and a half so... you get what you get, this brain dump of stuff. sorry. 2025's version is...
Joel Gascoigne
The evening walk
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3rd Feb 2013
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A few weeks ago I restarted one of my favorite habits: a daily evening walk. I
want to share a couple of reasons why I love this habit so much, and how I
recommend starting it if you find that
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go
I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go.
The code in question is a Java client for...
5th Apr 2019
I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go.
The code in question is a Java client for RavenDB, a NoSQL JSON document database. Code with tests was around 50 thousand lines.
The result of the port is a Go client.
This article describes what I’ve learn in the...
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My Raspberry Pi Desktop
My Raspberry Pi Desktop
2020-09-02
I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it’s...
2nd Sep 2020
My Raspberry Pi Desktop
2020-09-02
I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it’s pretty great. I know these types of devices tend to be used for smaller pet-projects or fun experiments, but I thought I would share my experience using one as my main computer....
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - March 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did...
1st Mar 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in February - Finished my residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I gave a presentation Rethinking Wo...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Workflows are now in Alpha and I already broke mine
We've been building Workflows for a while now: this is our Zapier-style automation builder you can...
3rd Nov 2025
We've been building Workflows for a while now: this is our Zapier-style automation builder you can use to trigger actions based on live user…
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on Framework Churn
I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they...
16th Nov 2023
I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they save time. They help you build things faster.
Yes, there are costs associated with frameworks later on, especially as new versions come out and your app instantly feels like...
A Beautiful Site
Don't hate on PHP
It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like...
22nd Nov 2016
It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like this:
I [...] immediately drop interest in a project when I see that it is implemented in PHP.
A lot of people have been hating on PHP in recent years, and frankly, they have every...
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How To Google Your Errors
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4th Jan 2018
charity.wtf
On pain, careers, and doing things the hard way.
Part 1 Seven years ago I was working on backend infra for mobile apps at Parse, resenting MongoDB...
30th Apr 2019
Part 1 Seven years ago I was working on backend infra for mobile apps at Parse, resenting MongoDB and its accursed single write lock per replica with all my dirty, blackened soul. That’s when Miles Ward asked me to give a customer testimonial for MongoDB at AWS reinvent. It was...
Chris Nicholas
How to use Sandpack for code demos
Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every...
17th Dec 2021
Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every JavaScript framework.
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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
7th Sep 2023
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
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Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
3rd Jul 2019
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
The History of the...
Beware the cloud of hype
We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of...
4th Jun 2024
We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web.
The post Beware the cloud of hype appeared first on The History of the Web.
the jsomers.net blog
More people should write
More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the...
27th Sep 2012
More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. I have a selfish reason for my demand: I have a lot of friends who are thoughtful, but keep their...
Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge (in Rust)" revisited
14th Feb 2018
The Web Witch's Blog
Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2019
There isn't a day that goes by that I feel extremely privileged to do what I get to do for work....
19th Nov 2019
There isn't a day that goes by that I feel extremely privileged to do what I get to do for work. Last week, I flew out to Berlin for a few days to attend Beyond Tellerrand. My co-worker Aaron was speaking and running a workshop and I emceed the community focused session we've...
seated.ro
rabbit hole learning
Look everything up
Pretty much the best way to learn that I have found is to refrain from...
9th Mar 2025
Look everything up
Pretty much the best way to learn that I have found is to refrain from suprressing your innate curosity and let it go wild. Most of the time, you will encounter a term or concept that you do not know, instead of glancing at it briefly, go all in.
Google it,...
Josh Collinsworth
LLMs and performative productivity
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we...
5th Jun 2026
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.
David Crawshaw
Machining under a microscope
"The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses...
20th Jun 2016
"The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses spade-type end mills as small as 0.001 inch wide, although even smaller tools have been used occasionally."
www.mmsonline.com/articles/cutting-with-a-0001-inch-end-mill
alexwlchan
Generating art from lattice graphs
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the...
13th Sep 2022
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the Proms.
While I was on the train home, I had an idea for a fun art project.
I sketched it out on a napkin, got it working, posted a few pictures on Twitter, then put it down.
On Saturday I was...
Nue developer blog
Rethinking reactivity
**Nue JS** is a tiny, 2.1kb min-brotlied library for building user interfaces. It's an alternative...
2nd Oct 2023
**Nue JS** is a tiny, 2.1kb min-brotlied library for building user interfaces. It's an alternative to frameworks like *Vue*, *React*, and *Svelte* — and it's the central piece of the [Nue ecosystem](/), which is a ridiculously easier alternative to *Next.js* and *Astro*
Liz Denys
Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home'
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
2nd Apr 2011
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2024
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.
24th Dec 2024
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.
Making software...
Over-Nesting
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
6th Jan 2019
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I've recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Liz Denys
Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy
If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website,...
7th Jul 2015
If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website, you'll see
Registrant Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED
Registrant Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC.
Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411
Registrant City: PANAMA
Registrant State/Province:...
Coding Horror
Let's Talk About The American Dream
A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of...
6th Mar 2025
A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work. It takes action. It takes hard conversations that ask
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new...
1st Nov 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new features for Postcard - Got a new photo 🤔 Things worth sharing - Reading How to make great coffee ...
ntietz.com blog -...
Topologies of Remote Teams
When you're building or scaling a software engineering team, you naturally run into a choice at some...
23rd Aug 2018
When you're building or scaling a software engineering team, you naturally run into a choice at some point: will we all be in the same office, or will we do this "remote work" thing? There are a lot of factors that go into whether or not remote work will work for your team, like...
On Test Automation
Should testers write unit tests?
This post was previously published through my newsletter on May 25, 2026. From time to time, I will...
4 weeks ago
This post was previously published through my newsletter on May 25, 2026. From time to time, I will republish newsletter issues on my blog here if I think people (and search engines) might benefit from it. If you want to read everything I’ve written once it is posted, I recommend...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2026
We’re off to an incredible start to 2026. December of 2025 broke a new record with 3,075,904 lessons...
13th Jan 2026
We’re off to an incredible start to 2026. December of 2025 broke a new record with 3,075,904 lessons completed and 82,578 training grounds challenges completed during the month! In January, I’m writing this on the 13th, and we’re already at 1,657,581 lessons and 47,795 challenges...
Basta’s Notes
Code reviews
And why they're probably the most important software engineering skill
5th Dec 2025
And why they're probably the most important software engineering skill
Herman's blog
Nerding out about heaters
Keeping warm in the winter
28th May 2025
Keeping warm in the winter
ByteofDev
Why I hate JavaScript numbers and what everyone has (not) done with them
JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the...
26th Mar 2025
JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the price
Liz Denys
Building confidence in the face of impostor syndrome
When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I...
27th Jun 2014
When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I question if I am a good enough engineer, designer, or statistician, but once I get started, my excitement transforms those doubts into motivation.
But all bets are off as soon as I...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in October - Switched my daily driver Aeropress coffee recipe to this one by Jonathan Gagné. It p...
Jordan Eldredge's...
[Original Song] "Our Love Will Last As Long"
I wrote and recorded a novelty love song for Chelsea.
4th Jul 2009
I wrote and recorded a novelty love song for Chelsea.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically.
In this article I...
23rd Oct 2016
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically.
In this article I describe an optimization that uses arrays instead of classes while providing a class API for accessing data.
Imagine you’re building a web-based note taking application.
It uses modern,...
The Codist
Why Are People Still Using C?
C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand...
2nd Aug 2023
C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand why, unless there is a lot of existing code to support, I can't fathom why anyone would start something new in 2023 in C.
I first learned C in
Daniel Immke
Building a new personal website
Yesterday I launched a new version of this website. When finishing big projects, I always experience...
15th Feb 2021
Yesterday I launched a new version of this website. When finishing big projects, I always experience this odd phenomenon where the final…
Daniel Immke
Beginner interaction design with Principle
I was able to pick up this powerful motion design tool in about 10 minutes and you can too!
30th Nov 2017
I was able to pick up this powerful motion design tool in about 10 minutes and you can too!
Sebastian Witowski
Should I Have a Blog?
Yes.
Or did you expect a different answer? You came to a blog to read an article on whether you...
14th Nov 2023
Yes.
Or did you expect a different answer? You came to a blog to read an article on whether you should have a blog. Did you really think, even for a split second, the answer would be, "No, you shouldn't. And thinking about it, I'm closing my blog too. Sayōnara!"
Blogs are great....
Irrational...
Refactoring internal documentation in Notion
In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation
was the area with the second most...
5th Feb 2026
In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation
was the area with the second most comments.
This is a writeup of the concrete steps I took to see how much
progress one person could make on improving the organization’s
documentation while holding myself to a high...
Julia Evans
Reasons to use your shell's job control
Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z,
wait, etc). It made me...
3rd Jul 2024
Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z,
wait, etc). It made me think about how I don’t use my shell’s job
control interactively very often: usually I prefer to just open a new terminal
tab if I want to run multiple terminal programs, or use tmux...
Patrick Kayongo
Of Mountains and Hills
It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The...
16th Mar 2024
It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The love may have come from the views he found solace in during his years of sojourn in Cape Town. From the upper campus of UCT, he would take lunch walks to Rhodes Memorial to escape...
HTMHell Advent...
Top layer troubles: popover vs. dialog
by Stephanie Eckles
Have you ever tried to set z-index: 9999 to solve element layering issues? If...
1st Dec 2025
by Stephanie Eckles
Have you ever tried to set z-index: 9999 to solve element layering issues? If so, you’ve been fighting a fundamental CSS concept of stacking contexts.
The stacking context defines the order things are placed in the third dimension, or the “z” axis. Think of...
Tinloof - Blog
How to create an accessible React modal
A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the...
1st Apr 2019
A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the user can’t interact with the rest of the application.
Creating a modal in React is fairly easy. There are dozens of resources that explain how to do so, including the React...
Buttondown's blog
Tags now get auto-grouped
Tags now get auto-grouped
5th Feb 2024
Tags now get auto-grouped
Words and Buttons...
SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation
I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a...
13th Oct 2019
I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a funny name. I had my fun playing with the concept but the conclusion I had to put into my thesis was: “SWInE is rather promising”. In academic language, this means “useless”....
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...
4th Sep 2024
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...
The Changelog
Facebook Is Censoring People For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon
Update: Facebook has reversed itself over this censorship, but I maintain that whether the...
11th Sep 2021
Update: Facebook has reversed itself over this censorship, but I maintain that whether the censorship was algorithmic or human, it was intentional either way. Details in my new post. Last November, I made a brief post to Facebook about Mastodon. Mastodon is an open-source and...
Jaz's Blog
Fooling Around With Word Embeddings
21st Sep 2016
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Optimizing memory use in markdown parser
I’m porting gpui-component (a Rust UI component library built on GPUI) to C++ as gpui-cpp. By which...
3 weeks ago
I’m porting gpui-component (a Rust UI component library built on GPUI) to C++ as gpui-cpp. By which I mean: my friend Claude does the porting, I’m just directing.
It uses markdown-rs (a CommonMark + GFM parser) markdown parser so I ported it too.
Then I optimized it.
This post...
Eric Bailey
Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm
I would like to thank Modern Health. It was not their intent, but using their service broke me out...
1st Feb 2023
I would like to thank Modern Health. It was not their intent, but using their service broke me out of a deep depression by launching me into an incandescent rage.
I’ve read enough on destigmatizing mental health that I feel no shame in discussing this. In fact, in this regard I...
Max Schmitt
Sanity: How to Edit Documents as JSON
Read the post here.
16th Feb 2024
Daniel Immke
It’s the future — you can stop using JPEGs
An overview of some compelling alternatives.
18th Jan 2023
An overview of some compelling alternatives.
David Crawshaw
Compiler Bomb
main[-1u]={1};
codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/69189/build-a-compiler-bomb/69193#69193
14th Oct 2016
main[-1u]={1};
codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/69189/build-a-compiler-bomb/69193#69193
David Gerrells
how not to run a saas company
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
13th Oct 2024
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
Founder's blog
Will AI destroy B2B SaaS?
TL;DR
The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped.
Businesses used to buy...
7th Dec 2024
TL;DR
The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped.
Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever.
The discovery problem.
...
The Changelog
Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been...
8th Jan 2025
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech-oriented? And, more to...
A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI in Software Development
I believe artificial intelligence is a powerful and valuable tool that can significantly improve how...
20th Apr 2026
I believe artificial intelligence is a powerful and valuable tool that can significantly improve how we create, solve problems, and bring ideas to life.
I didn't always feel this way.. But these days, I use AI regularly in my work and I expect that to continue.
We may not have...
Julia Evans
Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)
I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my
playgrounds (nginx, dns,...
6th Aug 2024
I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my
playgrounds (nginx, dns, memory, more DNS) are written in Go, but many of those projects are just a few hundred lines and I don’t come back to those codebases much.
I thought I more or less understood the...
Marco.org
Developer relations
Apple’s leaders
continue
to
deny
developers
of two obvious truths:
That our apps provide substantial...
3rd Jun 2021
Apple’s leaders
continue
to
deny
developers
of two obvious truths:
That our apps provide substantial value to iOS beyond the purchase commissions collected by Apple.
That any portion of our customers came to our apps from our own marketing or reputation, rather than the App...
Epic Web Dev
Implicit Assertions (article)
Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a...
12th Mar 2024
Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a test or two in mind to improve.
TokyoDev
Top Coworking Spaces in Karuizawa
Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from...
10th Mar 2025
Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from Tokyo by Shinkansen. The elevation is approximately 1000 meters above sea level, making the summers relatively mild. Unlike other colder places in Japan, it doesn’t get much snow,...
ntietz.com blog -...
Profiling Rust programs the easy way
Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust.
It's not a magic wand for performance, it just...
4th Dec 2023
Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust.
It's not a magic wand for performance, it just gives you the control to eke out whatever performance you need.
So if your program is still slow, how do you fix that?
Profiling your program is one of the best options for figuring...
Stephen Wolfram...
We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute!
Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two...
6th Apr 2022
Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two years. For 45 years I’ve devoted myself to building a taller and taller tower of science and technology—which along the way has delivered many outputs of which I’m quite proud. But...
TokyoDev
Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn
A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few...
23rd Jan 2011
A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends
in
Japan](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/technology/10facebook.html?pagewanted=all)
made its rounds. As usual, Facebook is compared to the big three
Japanese SNS: mixi, Gree, and Mobage-town. However,...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Yearly Reading: Done and To Do
Reading fiction is not that dissimilar from watching a movie in your
brain. The ways in which...
26th Jan 2017
Reading fiction is not that dissimilar from watching a movie in your
brain. The ways in which audio-visual consumption of fiction and reading
fiction diverge is in their demand on engagement – when reading I must
learn new words, I struggle to find meaning, I use my imagination,...
Lee A Johnson
The Caretakers
If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to...
8th Aug 2026
If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to cover, you may have missed that BINGOS just hit 247 consecutive monthly uploads to CPAN1. This is noteworthy as it surpasses DROLSKY’s record set a while back.
That’s an upload to...
General Robots
The Mythical Non-Roboticist
What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework...
14th Mar 2024
What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
Buttondown's blog
Saved draft recipients
We're making it easier to keep track of who you're collaborating with on your newsletters
30th Jun 2020
We're making it easier to keep track of who you're collaborating with on your newsletters
A Smart Bear
Ho Rudolph
Rudolph claps back.
24th Dec 2013
Eric Bailey
Article pitch for your consideration
A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists if you spend a decent chunk of time...
8th Apr 2025
A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists if you spend a decent chunk of time publishing blog posts on your website.
Your website and contact information will be shared around on these lists, for the purpose of soliciting you for guest posts. If you’re not...
DevOps - Bitfield...
A reality check about cloud native DevOps
Wojtek Cichoń from Semaphore speaks with John Arundel, consultant and
author of ‘Cloud Native...
3rd Feb 2020
Wojtek Cichoń from Semaphore speaks with John Arundel, consultant and
author of ‘Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes’, about how adopting DevOps
destroys walls, builds bridges, and influences company cultures for the
better. “Sometimes all it takes to put the light back in...
alexwlchan
How moving to the cloud took our digital collections to new heights →
I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the...
12th Feb 2023
I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the benefits of moving our data storage and processing to the cloud.
Building out this infrastructure is a large part of what I’ve been working on for the last six (!) years.
It’s been...
Elad Blog
Biotech companies I wish existed
While one off companies may exist, I am surprised there is not more biotech activity in these areas
20th May 2025
While one off companies may exist, I am surprised there is not more biotech activity in these areas
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name That Ware November 2025
The Ware for November 2025 is a controller from the card-activated power switch in a hotel room. It...
25th Dec 2025
The Ware for November 2025 is a controller from the card-activated power switch in a hotel room. It was on the fritz, and when the repair person came and replaced it, Sam asked for the old module and brought it to me as a name that ware entry. Here’s the other circuit board that...
General Robots
Tech Debt
When people start working on General Purpose Robots there is a tendency to try to make sure that...
2nd May 2023
When people start working on General Purpose Robots there is a tendency to try to make sure that everything they do is Fully General Purpose And Future Proof. They have grand visions and world changing ambitions. Those make it seem like they should be building grand software, to...
The History of the...
The Gift of Code
In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time...
4th Sep 2024
In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time 135,000 lines of gifted code created a new era of JavaScript
The post The Gift of Code appeared first on The History of the Web.
swyx's site RSS Feed
What you can do in a decade
I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more...
22nd Apr 2026
I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more useful reflections.
Stephen Wolfram...
Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…
The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a...
16th Mar 2023
The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a human could do. But then ChatGPT burst onto the scene. And suddenly we realized that an AI could write a passable human-like essay. So now it’s natural to wonder: How far will this...
Matt Keeter
Panic! At the Async Runtime Shutdown
1st Aug 2024
Marco.org
In-App Purchase Rules
A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods:
Your app must use Apple’s...
11th Sep 2020
A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods:
Your app must use Apple’s in-app-purchase (IAP) system for all purchases made in the app.
Unless they’re purchases for goods or services that are consumed outside the app, in which case you are prohibited from using...
Patrick Kayongo
Technology & The Hollowing Middle Class
IT systems within large enterprises have done wonders to improve the efficiencies, resulting in...
18th Sep 2024
IT systems within large enterprises have done wonders to improve the efficiencies, resulting in great cost-savings, yet with unquestioned social effects. In his book Rhodes & His Banker, Richard Steyn narrates the founding and the early years of the bank we now know as Standard...
Epic Web Dev
How the Epic Stack Makes You Faster
Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.
1st Nov 2023
Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.
bt RSS Feed
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD
2023-06-05
VSCode and its many variations are not available on...
5th Jun 2023
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD
2023-06-05
VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn’t cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a hacky...
David Crawshaw
2014-01-17
"pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel...
17th Jan 2014
"pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel coming into the engine, reducing engine pressure, causing more fuel to come in and increasing engine pressure again."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_oscillation
Tyler Cipriani: blog
GPG Things
Get your fingerprint:
gpg --list-secret-keys --fingerprint
Get someone elses key
Using email
gpg2...
3rd Dec 2015
Get your fingerprint:
gpg --list-secret-keys --fingerprint
Get someone elses key
Using email
gpg2 --search-keys EMAIL
Using keyid
gpg2 --recv-key KEYID
Sign keys
gpg2 --recv-key KEYID
gpg2 --sign-key KEYID
gpg2 --send-key KEYID
Photos
View someone's photo
gpg...
Computer Things
Strings do too many things
No Newsletter next week
TLA+ Workshop and moving places.
Strings do too many things
In the unusual...
8th Feb 2024
No Newsletter next week
TLA+ Workshop and moving places.
Strings do too many things
In the unusual basis types email1 I wrote this about strings:
We use strings for identifiers, human writing, structured data, and grammars. If you instead use symbols for identifiers then you can...
Charles Chen
Use TypeScript Record Types for Better Code
TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
29th Oct 2022
TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
Remains of the Day
The inefficiency of large, infrequent transactions
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks:
COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient...
15th Apr 2018
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks:
COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient markets guy, but when I look at initial public offerings I’m very baffled because investment banks take such a huge cut.
If you needed to argue, “Well, they need the cut because they...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children...
2nd Jan 2025
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children just won’t stop being sick for more than 4 days at a time. Win some, lose some.
The History of the...
The Website that Predicted AI
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in...
13th Nov 2024
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in predictive technology, driven by sophisticated algorithms that provide real-time recommendations. And it was launched in 1995.
The post The Website that Predicted AI appeared first...
Tony Finch's blog
I made a keyboard!
Another keyboard!
HHKbeeb
A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup
to...
4th Aug 2023
Another keyboard!
HHKbeeb
A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup
to the beeb’s 40th anniversary. I called it HHKBeeb:
The HHKBeeb is made from:
keycaps designed by me and printed by WASD
Yiancar HS60 PCB
generic HHKB aluminium / acrylic sandwich...
Steve Klabnik
Fast Rails tests with CanCan
12th Dec 2011
TokyoDev
Proof Bitcoin is Overhyped
BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin...
9th Jul 2014
BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin transactions per day](https://blockchain.info/en/charts/n-transactions), I was flabbergasted: **there are only about 60,000 transactions per day.** I graphed the number relative to [the...
Steve Klabnik
I'm going writeonly on Twitter for a while
3rd Sep 2014
Oxide Computer...
Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going?
How it started
Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23
employees),...
1st May 2025
How it started
Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23
employees), and we knew that we needed many more people to execute on our
audacious vision. While we had
had success hiring in our personal networks, those networks now felt tapped;
we needed...
Grant Slatton
Book Review: 'The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World'
Excellent book about the history of precision machining
1st Jul 2024
Excellent book about the history of precision machining
A Beautiful Site
I'm pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac...
7th Aug 2026
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac App Store. Today, I decided to pull it.
The app isn't a new idea, but it bakes four color tools into a single menu bar app: an eyedropper, a color picker, a palette manager, and a...
the jsomers.net blog
Most book clubs are doing it wrong
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk...
15th Jul 2017
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet […]
A Smart Bear
Double your productivity without more work or stress
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this...
4th Aug 2024
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.
ntietz.com blog -...
The bittersweet end of a year of independence
Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention...
2nd Sep 2017
Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention was to do freelance work ("consulting", to all my clients) until I was able to launch my first product, and then shift into being a product company. My ambitions and confidence...
somenice
Merlin Bird Sound ID
I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that...
8th May 2022
I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that I have not been able to spot or identify visually but using Sound ID I can quickly pull up and confirm which bird I’m hearing. The Pacific Wren has an amazing song and I noticed...
Alice GG
Protecting Godot games against reverse engineering
Godot games are known to be easy to reverse engineer.
Simple tools can extract assets and source...
3rd Apr 2026
Godot games are known to be easy to reverse engineer.
Simple tools can extract assets and source code from the packaged files.
If you are making commercial games you probably want to take some steps to avoid this.
Jorien Loman
Godot RE Tools
The most popular Godot reverse...
macwright.com
Recently
I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more
of a grab-bag than usual!
The <video> element...
1st Aug 2024
I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more
of a grab-bag than usual!
The <video> element and browser abstractions
I was reading Iván Sánchez Ortega’s thoughts on maps4html
(at the time of writing, his website is down, so that’s an archive.org
link). The post is about a...
elementary Blog
Big Feature Updates for Accessibility, Privacy, Security, and More
As promised, this month brings a bunch of new features including a big new accessibility feature and...
5th Jul 2023
As promised, this month brings a bunch of new features including a big new accessibility feature and a major platform improvement. Enjoy this month’s contributions to the upcoming OS 7.1!
AppCenter
As we work towards our continual goal of better supporting alternative app stores,...
Josh Comeau's blog
A World-Class Code Playground with Sandpack
No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code...
11th Oct 2022
No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code playground. The CodeSandbox team recently released a wonderful tool called Sandpack, to help us create these live-updating code editors. In this tutorial, I'll show you how I use it on this...
Computer Things
How to argue for something without any scientific evidence
Last week I got this interesting question:
I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
6th Mar 2024
Last week I got this interesting question:
I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
On Life and Lisp
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release!
We’ve been working hard over the past...
7th Dec 2022
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release!
We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new
driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is
still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth
desktop...
Eric Bailey
Evaluating Fable’s pay-per-project offering
I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a...
5th Nov 2025
I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a project-based option for accessibility practitioners, champions, and product teams that delivers quick feedback from disabled people who use assistive technology.
This service...
Alex Meub
Upgrading the Weber Q Grill
I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill. I have mine hooked up...
15th Oct 2018
I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill. I have mine hooked up to a 15 lb propane tank at home where it gets regular use. It is small, but it heats up quickly and cooks food better than any other grill I’ve tried.
However, I recently noticed...
Max Countryman
Data for Decisions
Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our...
1st Feb 2023
Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our businesses. That said, the value of data is rarely the data itself but instead the insights we derive from it. In order to ensure these insights are meaningful and impactful it's...
Kevin Chen
!!Con 2018 Notes
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
12th May 2018
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to
computers!
This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech
scene. I’m really going to miss it when I move back to the...
rss — Darek Kay
Estimating the number of your RSS subscribers
Here's a quick tip to estimate the number of your RSS subscribers. All you need is access to the web...
22nd Feb 2021
Here's a quick tip to estimate the number of your RSS subscribers. All you need is access to the web server logs.
Let's filter the logs for the RSS file names (in my case it's atom.xml and feed.json):
cat access.log | grep -e atom.xml -e feed.json
When looking through my logs,...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - May 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did...
1st May 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in April - Cat's out of the bag - the "Shenanigans" I referenced in March and April are revealed. I...
Alex Meub
A Pretty Good Entertainment Setup
My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a...
3rd Aug 2013
My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a Synology DiskStation DS213 NAS with 2x2TB RAID 0 configured drives. This is hands down the best NAS I’ve ever used. It’s super easy to set up and the interface is awesome (all...
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...
14th Jan 2018
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 Beautiful Site
Validating URLs and email addresses in PHP
This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var()...
18th Sep 2013
This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var() function, it's actually very easy and doesn't require regular expressions. The following wrapper functions force a true boolean response, so you can use them safely in your logic.
Email...
Epic Web Dev
How to Get Started with Programming for Free in 2026 (article)
Learn TypeScript for free in 2026 — no experience needed. A structured path from total beginner to...
2nd Mar 2026
Learn TypeScript for free in 2026 — no experience needed. A structured path from total beginner to production-ready developer, starting with two free workshops.
Tom MacWright
Recently
I have a bunch that I want to write about this month, but that'll all be in different posts. Just...
1st Apr 2026
I have a bunch that I want to write about this month, but that'll all be in different posts. Just got back from Atmosphere Conf in Vancouver and settling into a false Brooklyn summer.
Reading
I read so much this month but have little to share here. Despite trying to keep a rich,...
Julia Evans
Standards for ANSI escape codes
Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes.
For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI...
7th Mar 2025
Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes.
For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI escape codes (“that’s how you make
text red in the terminal and stuff”) but I had no real understanding of where they were
supposed to be defined or whether or not there were...
Blog of Simple...
Data Processing Agreements
1st Jun 2023
Words and Buttons...
Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics?
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat...
17th Jul 2020
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat limited scope, this may be indeed an economical alternative to splines.
Elad Blog
AI Market Clarity
A subset of AI markets have crystalized in the last 12 months, with the likely market leaders for...
22nd Jul 2025
A subset of AI markets have crystalized in the last 12 months, with the likely market leaders for the next year or two suddenly clear
Ink & Switch
End-user Programming
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has...
1st Mar 2019
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
alexwlchan
How I set up my Obsidian vaults
Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve...
19th Sep 2023
Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve been using it for nearly three years.
Time flies when you’re organising information!
I’ve grown to really like it, and I expect to keep using it for a while to come.
Its approach...
The Codist
Yet Another Post On Scrum, But Different
Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management.
I did as well, but a...
4th Jun 2024
Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management.
I did as well, but a difference is that I started my career in 1981, long before the hordes of Scrums took root.
1981, you say, so you must have done Waterfall, so you are old and have
Josh Comeau's blog
Dynamic Bézier Curves
A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as...
23rd May 2018
A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as scroll-to-flatten using SVG path instructions, and how to architect our components for maximum readability and reusability.
Liz Denys
Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music -...
14th Jan 2019
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - specifically, I saw all 26 of the Next Wave Festival productions.
I've been coming to BAM regularly since I moved to New York in 2011, and Next Wave is always an exciting time of year...
alexwlchan
Creating a personal wrapper around yt-dlp
I download a lot of videos from YouTube, and yt-dlp is my tool of choice.
Sometimes I download...
7th Oct 2025
I download a lot of videos from YouTube, and yt-dlp is my tool of choice.
Sometimes I download videos as a one-off, but more often I’m downloading videos in a project – my bookmarks, my collection of TV clips, or my social media scrapbook.
I’ve noticed myself writing similar...
David Crawshaw
Leaving Google
Leaving Google
2018-03-27
Today is my last day at Google.
It has been a wonderful place to work...
27th Mar 2018
Leaving Google
2018-03-27
Today is my last day at Google.
It has been a wonderful place to work filled with excellent coworkers.
I am sad to be leaving Fuchsia before 1.0.
As an operating system it gets so many things right.
No doubt I will get a chance to be a user.
For the...
Blog System/5
From Azure Functions to FreeBSD
Putting FreeBSD’s “power to serve” motto to the test
7th Dec 2025
Putting FreeBSD’s “power to serve” motto to the test
Eric Bailey
Building a better button in CSS
19th Oct 2016
The Changelog
How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys
For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a...
17th May 2025
For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins. This is klunky, and has a number of drawbacks (dependency on a cloud service and Internet among them). I decided it was time to upgrade, so I...
Nelson's Weblog
Austria 2022
Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We
had a lovely time although...
27th Oct 2022
Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We
had a lovely time although we did get a little worn out and ready for home
after a couple of weeks. Along the way we stayed in Vienna, Graz, the
Wörthersee, Zell am See, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Hallstatt,...
Steve Klabnik
Implementing HATEOS with presenters
6th Jan 2012
Blog System/5
Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD
In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the...
26th Apr 2024
In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the ST7735s 1.44" LCD, which sports a resolution of 128x128 pixels, a D-pad, and 3 other buttons. I will cover the prerequisite work to make the port possible, dig into the GPIO and SPI...
Remains of the Day
And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep
It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at...
10th Oct 2021
It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at the companies that have survived, certain application architectural choices are ubiquitous. By now, we're all familiar with the infinite vertical scrolling feed of content units,...
Quentin Santos
AMD CPUs, CCDs and CCXs
When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more...
3rd Oct 2024
When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more familiar with how my CPU works. I thought I knew quite a bit, with L1/L2/L3 caches, ISA extensions, branch predictors, register renaming and so much more. But, it turns out, even...
Kevin Chen
Real estate is one of the hardest open problems in scaled self driving
I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently.
Over the past few...
3rd Sep 2024
I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently.
Over the past few months, I’ve flown a drone as part of a stakeout to understand how they work. And I’ve taken a deep dive into an apparent Waymo outage to find the company charging its electric vehicles...
Eric Bailey
Don’t forget to localize your icons
Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing...
11th Nov 2024
Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing a v-for-victory hand gesture at the assembled crowd. It wasn’t received the way he intended.
What he failed to realize is that this gesture means a lot of different things to a...
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