A Beautiful Site
CSS shapes are here
Here's something exciting from the CSS world: shapes!
Ok, it may not sound all that exciting, but...
over a year ago
Here's something exciting from the CSS world: shapes!
Ok, it may not sound all that exciting, but you haven't had a chance to see what can actually be done with CSS shapes yet. (Hint: check out the featured image above.)
Razvan Caliman explains it like this:
For a long time, web...
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Abstract Syntax Trees by example
Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples...
over a year ago
Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples of how to use it for parsing, generating, and manipulating abstract syntax trees, I'm collecting some here from my own usage of it.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Reflexive McLuhanism
First we shape X, then X shapes us.
over a year ago
First we shape X, then X shapes us.
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...
over a year ago
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…
Civic Hax
Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization
Intro
Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking...
over a year ago
Intro
Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking tickets in Chicago, but because I've spent so much time on the overall project, I figured I'd share the story that got me to this point. In many ways, this work is the foundation...
General Robots
ML for Robots: Hybrid Learned vs End-to-End Learned
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 6
a year ago
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 6
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.36.0: Introducing AND/OR filtering, timezone support and universal search
PostHog 1.36.0 introduces AND/OR filtering, timezone support, universal search, multi-dashboard...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.36.0 introduces AND/OR filtering, timezone support, universal search, multi-dashboard insights and much, much more.
A Smart Bear
Pick one and own it
What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will...
12 months ago
What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will make your positioning and strategy stronger.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Post Bootcamp Mindmap
What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or...
over a year ago
What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or bootcamp?
Irrational...
No Wrong Doors.
Some governmental agencies have started to adopt No Wrong Door policies, which aim to provide...
8 months ago
Some governmental agencies have started to adopt No Wrong Door policies, which aim to provide help–often health or mental health services–to individuals even if they show up to the wrong agency to request help. The core insight is that the employees at those agencies are far...
Liz Denys
Reflections on XOXO 2018
If I actually wrote about XOXO 2018 last weekend like I had intended to do, I would have tried to...
over a year ago
If I actually wrote about XOXO 2018 last weekend like I had intended to do, I would have tried to write an article titled "XOXO strives to be what the internet should strive to be," and I probably would have never finished it. It's not that I don't still think XOXO tries to be...
Josh Collinsworth
A response to "Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress"
I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer...
2 months ago
I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer much of a serious or objective examination of the issues at hand. Rather, the post unfortunately reads as something more akin to a puff piece, or corporate propaganda.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Winning from the back - late mover advantage
We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to...
over a year ago
We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to share a diary? Late mover advantage Product…
Liz Denys
Denim hexagonal teacups, 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
6 months ago
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
A Smart Bear
Rare things become common at scale
Software doesn't scale through architecture and automation alone. New, more difficult problems...
8 months ago
Software doesn't scale through architecture and automation alone. New, more difficult problems appear that didn't exist before, causing new downstream consequences.
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?
It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If...
a year ago
It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If Section 174 tax changes stay, the US will be one of the least desirable countries to launch startups
Confessions of a...
Recording of Live Session on CPython Virtual Machine Internals
Yesterday we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython virtual machine (VM) or the...
8 months ago
Yesterday we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython virtual machine (VM) or the bytecode interpreter implementation.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Cost of Avoiding Annoyance
tl;dr Living with annoying technological constraints might be less costly than maintaining the...
a year ago
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...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Treats from git's contrib tools🍭
.title { text-wrap: balance }
The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here,...
a year ago
.title { text-wrap: balance }
The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe
even experimental ones
Junio C Hamano, git/contrib/README
Git bundles handy tools along with its source repo. They live in a
directory named contrib—short for
contributed...
the singularity is...
A dive into the AMD driver workflow
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real...
a year ago
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real technical information, but it did include some great phrases like “I am able to replicate the issues you are facing” and some mockable phrases like “We are hoping that this will...
Eric Bailey
An introduction to macOS Head Pointer
over a year ago
Marc Astbury
The Continuum of Design
Where do we go from here? User centricity helped us build software, but what comes next? The past:...
3 weeks ago
Where do we go from here? User centricity helped us build software, but what comes next? The past: the genius designer design through ideology Vignelli, Da Vinci, Le Corbusier etc. master designer will intuit problems and find solutions, a moment of genius designing with atoms...
Josh Collinsworth
Let's learn SvelteKit by building a static Markdown blog from scratch
Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with...
over a year ago
Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with Markdown support, Sass, an API, and an RSS feed.
ntietz.com blog
Measuring the overhead of HashMaps in Rust
While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my...
over a year ago
While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my hashmaps were taking up a lot of RAM.
I mean, a lot of RAM.
I did a back of the napkin calculation for what the minimum memory usage should be, and I was getting more than twice...
swyx's site RSS Feed
5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
over a year ago
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
Alex MacCaw
Artificial Knowledge Creation
How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know...
a year ago
How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know so far.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Improving my productivity in 2018
2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation,...
over a year ago
2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation, built this site and started blogging…
charity.wtf
How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole)
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of...
a year ago
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust. I got a couple requests to turn it into a blog post for sharing purposes; here you go.🌈✨🥂 In this doc I mention Christine, my wonderful, brilliant cofounder and CEO,...
General Robots
Announcing posetree.py: Wrangling Timestamps and Transforms for Robots
A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no...
a year ago
A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no profit for me I guess). Check it out!
Tony Finch's blog
obfuscated C revisited
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has a newly
revamped web site, and the Judges have...
3 weeks ago
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has a newly
revamped web site, and the Judges have announced the 28th contest, to
coincide with its 40th anniversary. (Or 41st?)
The Judges have also updated the archive of past winners so
that as many of them as possible work on modern...
Oxide Computer...
RFD 1 Requests for Discussion
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo...
over a year ago
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo houses our requests for discussion. Bryan teased this to the internet…
…and folks asked for our process, so we are going to share it!
The best way to describe RFDs is with “RFD 1...
Eric Bailey
Forbidden noodles
My obsession with food-based taxonomy continues. Here are all the forbidden noodles I am aware...
over a year ago
My obsession with food-based taxonomy continues. Here are all the forbidden noodles I am aware of:
Bucatini
The FDA banning the import of this beloved pasta was one of the many tragedies 2020 visited on us. If there is any consolation, know that the De Cecco pasta factories have...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Slowmad Q&A
The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people...
over a year ago
The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people are generally interested in is my experience of remote work. As I put it [recently](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1154916667606130689):
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Expose Platform APIs Over Wrapping Them
From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js:
One of the primary differences...
9 months ago
From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js:
One of the primary differences between enzyme and Testing Library is that while enzyme gave you a wrapper with a bunch of (overly) helpful (dangerous) utilities for interacting with rendered elements, Testing...
Greg Brockman
Leaving Stripe
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I...
over a year ago
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I soon discovered the deep satisfaction of having others actually use my creations. It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted to build a startup.
Startups #
Throughout college, I...
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Tell me about features, not benefits
Features tell, benefits sell. Well, they used to. What are you talking about? Benefits are why ...
over a year ago
Features tell, benefits sell. Well, they used to. What are you talking about? Benefits are why someone would use your product. Features are what…
Miguel Carranza
How NOT to apply to Y Combinator
Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also...
over a year ago
Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also quite impactful for Jacob and me as founders. I want to believe we would still be around even if we had not gotten into YC, but I am sure the company would not be where it is today....
sancho.dev
Run yarn/npm scripts with fzf
over a year ago
Making software...
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
2020-06-22
There are a great deal of options available on the web and...
over a year ago
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
2020-06-22
There are a great deal of options available on the web and built into most operating systems when you need to create presentation / keynote slides. You could use native software like LibremOffice Impress, Powerpoint, Apple's Keynote, etc....
Epic Web Dev
Epic Workshop Test Tab Demo (tip)
4 months ago
Making software...
PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS
PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS
2021-06-20
Overall, I'm fairly impressed with the user interface...
over a year ago
PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS
2021-06-20
Overall, I'm fairly impressed with the user interface design of Sony's PS4 system OS. It's minimal and keeps the content front and center. Even with it's sometimes spotty performance hiccups, I've come to enjoy interacting with it.
One of...
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...
over a year ago
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.
samwho.dev
Turing Machines
body {
text-wrap: pretty;
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
* {
...
a month ago
body {
text-wrap: pretty;
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
* {
transition: none;
animation: none;
}
}
turing-machine {
width: 100%;
display: block;
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 1em;
}
turing-machine...
TokyoDev
All code is technical debt
Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward...
over a year ago
Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward Cunningham](http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor), is the idea that you can gain a temporary speed boost by rushing software development, at the cost of slowing down future development.
This acts like a loan. With a loan,...
Computer Things
"Logic for Programmers" Project Update
Happy new year everyone!
I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's...
2 weeks ago
Happy new year everyone!
I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's since been four new versions since then, with the November release putting us in beta. Between work and holidays I didn't make much progress in December, but there will be a 0.6...
Computer Things
My patented Miracle Tonic would have prevented the CrowdStrike meltdown
Last Friday CrowdStrike did something really bad and it destroyed every airport in the world. I...
6 months ago
Last Friday CrowdStrike did something really bad and it destroyed every airport in the world. I didn't bother to learn anything else about it because I was too busy writing my 10k whitepaper about how all the problems were all caused by one simple mistake: not drinking my...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Setting Your Social Handle as Your Domain Name on Bluesky
I recently got an invite to Bluesy (thx JJ). I wanted to try it purely for the satisfaction of...
a year ago
I recently got an invite to Bluesy (thx JJ). I wanted to try it purely for the satisfaction of setting my domain name as my handle, as I’m fan of the idea of apex domain’s becoming the currency of online handles. As I once tweeted: domains are the OG handles.
Granted, I own...
Nelson's Weblog
Linkblog feed update
I've got a new
feed for my
linkblog. It's at
https://www.somebits.com/linkblog/index.atom
old feed...
over a year ago
I've got a new
feed for my
linkblog. It's at
https://www.somebits.com/linkblog/index.atom
old feed at Pinboard
will still work but isn't as fancy.
Joel Gascoigne
Why we have a core value of transparency at our startup, and why the reasons don't matter
Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and
failures. Over time this...
over a year ago
Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and
failures. Over time this developed into a more defined goal and principle as
part of the values of the company
[http://www.slideshare.net/Bufferapp/buffer-culture-04].
Since we defined our value of...
Epic Web Dev
Full Stack Components
There’s this pattern I’ve been using in my apps that has been really helpful to me and I’d like to...
over a year ago
There’s this pattern I’ve been using in my apps that has been really helpful to me and I’d like to share it with you all.
David Heinemeier...
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...
11 months ago
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...
Steve Klabnik
What comes after open source
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Mug handles
My two-part piece on equivalent experiences is now live on Smashing Magazine. I have complicated...
over a year ago
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...
A Smart Bear
Building in public forces true competitive advantage
“Building in public” is increasingly popular. It’s fun to have strangers cheering you on, and it...
over a year ago
“Building in public” is increasingly popular. It’s fun to have strangers cheering you on, and it creates a self-imposed accountability. But doesn’t it ruin competitive advantage when your competitors can steal your source code and know the salaries of your employees and whether...
Acko.net
On Witchcraft
Lies, damned lies, and social media
Rhetoric about the dangers of the internet is at a feverish...
over a year ago
Lies, damned lies, and social media
Rhetoric about the dangers of the internet is at a feverish high. The new buzzword these days is "disinformation." Funnily enough, nobody actually produces it themselves: it's only other people who do so.
Arguably the internet already came up...
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...
over a year ago
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...
Making software...
Open Source Typeface Pairings
Open Source Typeface Pairings
2018-01-25
I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
over a year ago
Open Source Typeface Pairings
2018-01-25
I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost).
So, I've...
orlp.net - Blog...
The World's Smallest Hash Table
This December I once again did the Advent of Code,
in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions
are...
a year ago
This December I once again did the Advent of Code,
in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions
are on Github. I wanted to highlight one particular solution to the day 2
problem as it is both optimized completely
beyond the point of reason yet contains a useful technique. For...
ntietz.com blog
Writing Hurl's grammar, twice
Recently I started working on a programming language, Hurl.
Writing the initial code samples and...
a year ago
Recently I started working on a programming language, Hurl.
Writing the initial code samples and developing the concept is all fine and good, but the next step is to actually make it work.
The steps I outlined for developing Hurl in the last post were:
Write out code samples to...
Tinker, Tamper,...
Making Good Bug Reports
Many, many years ago, this was with Bugzilla in the early 2000s, I got my first automated lecture on...
5 months ago
Many, many years ago, this was with Bugzilla in the early 2000s, I got my first automated lecture on what constitutes a good bug report. I probably didn’t pay attention. Since then, I’ve seen this list countless times, in various levels of detail, across a broad array of...
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 -...
over a year ago
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...
Quentin Santos
Rust Gotcha: last() on DoubleEndedIterator
tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a...
2 weeks ago
tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a space-separated string in Rust? It will be obvious to some, but the obvious answer of s.split(' ').last() is wrong. The mistake is easy to make; I encountered it in a recent MR I...
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Automating a software company with GitHub Actions
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs,...
over a year ago
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing…
Vadim Kravcenko
How to become a CTO?
Question:
Hey Vadim,
Long-time reader, enjoy your content a lot. I've been a software engineer for...
8 months ago
Question:
Hey Vadim,
Long-time reader, enjoy your content a lot. I've been a software engineer for about seven years now, doing mostly web development and taking over ownership of different modules step by step, expanding my people skills so to speak. Lately, I've been doing some...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Using global memoization in React
When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a...
over a year ago
When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a hammer that often works well, and makes it hard to shoot yourself in the foot. But useMemo is not a silver bullet — sometimes it just introduces more useless work instead of making...
Irrational...
Should we decompose our monolith?
From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adopting
a microservices architecture, a...
4 months ago
From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adopting
a microservices architecture, a monolithic service architecture, or a hybrid between the two, has become one of the
least-reversible decisions that most engineering organizations make.
Even migrating to a...
A Smart Bear
Individual efficiency vs administrative efficiency
When to prioritize individual autonomy, and when to standardize for global optimization.
5 months ago
When to prioritize individual autonomy, and when to standardize for global optimization.
charity.wtf
Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes
You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management...
a year ago
You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management you’ve endured and witnessed in tech, and you are god damn determined not to repeat all of those mistakes. You are tired of reporting to a manager who isn’t transparent with you, who...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q2
Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently...
9 months ago
Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently wrote an article on what she learned by looking at the 900 most popular open source AI tools. https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html In data engineering, one of our primary...
A Smart Bear
The mid-market briar patch
Mid-sized companies: Small enough to have small budgets, big enough for bureaucratic nightmares.
5 months ago
Mid-sized companies: Small enough to have small budgets, big enough for bureaucratic nightmares.
Dan Slimmon
The World Record for Loneliness
What's the farthest any person has been from the nearest other person?
8 months ago
What's the farthest any person has been from the nearest other person?
A Beautiful Site
Installing Shoelace in a React App
Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library...
over a year ago
Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library idiomatically in React. This video shows you how to install Shoelace in a brand new Create React App.
If you found this video helpful, please subscribe to my channel on YouTube...
bt RSS Feed
RSS Hacks With XSLT
RSS Hacks With XSLT
2022-05-23
In my spare time I’ve been further tinkering (hopefully for the...
over a year ago
RSS Hacks With XSLT
2022-05-23
In my spare time I’ve been further tinkering (hopefully for the better) with my humble Shinobi Website1 script. The most recent update in patch-1 came with a solid amount of QoL improvements. If you’re interested, I wrote about it on the official...
Joel Gascoigne
Creating order from chaos in a startup
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I’ve been...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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I’ve been pondering recently about how my latest venture has very much felt like
cycling between creating order from chaos and then ending up with chaos again. I
wanted to share my experiences and...
Irrational...
Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers.
Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike
about the Principal Engineer...
2 months ago
Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike
about the Principal Engineer role](https://qconsf.com/presentation/nov2024/ambiguous-roles-and-ambiguous-problems-navigating-life-principal-engineer).
You can also watch the video on YouTube.
The content itself...
Remains of the Day
Catch up
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some...
over a year ago
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some trips with family and friends, a few creative projects have stolen the lion's share of my free time.
While I won't publish some Medium screed on how spending less time on social...
The Changelog
When You Think You’re At the End, You’re At the Beginning
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. –...
over a year ago
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. – Fred Rogers This is sunrise over Kansas. Or maybe sunset. I’m not going to tell you this time, because it doesn’t matter all that much. I love that it (if you don’t over-analyze it)...
Maggie Appleton
Plebeian Programming with Keyboard Maestro
How to write macros without touching the terminal
over a year ago
How to write macros without touching the terminal
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2023
The Ware for October 2023 is shown below. Thanks to JeffreyO for contributing this ware!
a year ago
The Ware for October 2023 is shown below. Thanks to JeffreyO for contributing this ware!
davidyat.es
Review: The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Getting proportionally-resized dimensions of an image
This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of...
over a year ago
This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of dimensions.
get_resized_dimensions() #
Parameters #
$width - The width of the image to be resized
$height - The height of the image to be resized
$max_width - The maximum allowed width of the...
ntietz.com blog
What's in my software engineering tool belt?
One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I...
a year ago
One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I use.
When I read a post recently about a data journalist's data tool belt, well...
I knew I'd have to share my own software engineering tool belt, too.
So, here's my software...
Tony Finch's blog
Purple PCBs for Keybird69
I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I
was at school 30 years ago,...
a year ago
I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I
was at school 30 years ago, and a lot has changed since then! So my
aim for Keybird69’s PCB was to learn my way around the design,
manufacturing, and assembly process.
microcontroller
other components
key...
Joel Gascoigne
What can we do right now?
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over a year ago
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Recently there have been a few occasions at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where
we’ve hesitated about next steps or thought about spending longer on certain
tasks. As a result of my thinking...
Darek Kay
Building a photography website
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of...
a year ago
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of my work, without any attention-driven algorithms dictating the terms. Here's a technical write-up of my journey.
Table of...
Nelson's Weblog
My work at early Twitter
I worked at Twitter part-time starting June 2007. I've never talked much about this in public. I'm...
over a year ago
I worked at Twitter part-time starting June 2007. I've never talked much about this in public. I'm revisiting it because of the complete disaster Elon Musk has made of Twitter. His sabotage of the company has felt personal to me. It hurts to watch him destroy something I helped...
Liz Denys
Understanding GNU Screen's captions
I love screen. I know all the cool kids are using tmux now, but screen keeps it simple and does...
over a year ago
I love screen. I know all the cool kids are using tmux now, but screen keeps it simple and does everything I really need.
One of the things I (possibly mistakenly) want is lots of windows. The problem with having lots of windows is they quickly become hard to keep track of,...
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...
over a year ago
Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every JavaScript framework.
somenice
The Micro One-Armed Bandit
Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython...
over a year ago
Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython using the Adafruit 5×5 NeoBFF Led Matrix. A micro switch, or limit switch is used to ‘pull’ the slot machine arm. A Piezo buzzer bleeps and bloops familiar tones and may signal a win....
Steve Klabnik
Reddit drama: an interesting look at community values
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Good Design Sells Open Source
I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to
[Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a...
over a year ago
I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to
[Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a blogging framework backed by the
static site generator [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/). I first read about
Octopress a couple of weeks ago on Hacker News. Although Octopress
appealed...
A Beautiful Site
PHP functions to get and remove the file extension from a string
I use these regular expressions all the time, but it's much more convenient to have them both in...
over a year ago
I use these regular expressions all the time, but it's much more convenient to have them both in convenient PHP functions.
// Returns only the file extension (without the dot)
function file_ext($filename) {
return preg_match('/\./', $filename) ? preg_replace('/^.*\./', '',...
Basta’s Notes
Gumby Coin: a story about a 1958 claymation character, cryptocurrency, and pizza
A grift, a failure, or a mistake?
a year ago
A grift, a failure, or a mistake?
A Beautiful Site
Parsing a JSON string results in an 'Invalid Label' error
Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred...
over a year ago
Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred server-side language. I use JSON whenever I can to pass data between JavaScript and PHP. After all, $.get and $.post both process JSON easily, so it's my data type of choice.
Sometimes,...
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
Learn how to use Zod and Conform to validate and transform form data into sessions
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Temporal Transparency Update
Our 9th transparency update describing how we are shipping the upcoming Authentication feature
over a year ago
Our 9th transparency update describing how we are shipping the upcoming Authentication feature
A Beautiful Site
New shortcut keys in Windows 7
I was happy to learn that Windows 7 has some new shortcut keys that let you control certain aspects...
over a year ago
I was happy to learn that Windows 7 has some new shortcut keys that let you control certain aspects of window management right out of the box. They're pretty easy to remember too:
Win + Up - Maximize the current window
Win + Down - Restore a maximized window, otherwise minimize...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2023
The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like...
11 months ago
The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like the ATOMSTACK Laser Engraver (link without affiliate code), and the module itself is produced by Shenzhen Xinghan Laser Technology Co, Ltd.. I don’t have an exact part number for...
Evan Jones -...
Postgres large sub-string query performance
Following up on my last post about large JSON queries, I also benchmarked sub-string queries on...
over a year ago
Following up on my last post about large JSON queries, I also benchmarked sub-string queries on large variable-length strings. I wanted to check if sub-string queries might be faster than HSTORE or JSONB key lookups. I tested both binary (BYTEA) and Unicode text (TEXT)....
elementary Blog
Package Releases Are Almost Done, You Won't Believe What Happens Next!
This month’s update is fairly brief since a lot of what we did last month was minor bug fixes,...
4 months ago
This month’s update is fairly brief since a lot of what we did last month was minor bug fixes, regression testing, updating metadata, taking screenshots, and releasing packages. We’re getting down to the last few items before we can release elementary OS 8. Read ahead to find out...
Making software...
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
2020-03-18
An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
over a year ago
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
2020-03-18
An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
The Pragmatic...
The Scoop: Tech Layoffs in 2022
I get a lot of scoop sent by readers (thank you!). Sadly, in 2022, a good part of the scoop is about...
over a year ago
I get a lot of scoop sent by readers (thank you!). Sadly, in 2022, a good part of the scoop is about companies laying off people. Some of this scoop has not been reported before.
I don't want to broadcast layoffs on Twitter or LinkedIn continuously, but also
TokyoDev
Generating social images with static site generators
With TokyoDev, this site, my goal is to help international software developers start and grow their...
over a year ago
With TokyoDev, this site, my goal is to help international software developers start and grow their career in Japan. Being a developer myself, it's been tempting to come up with technical solutions to do this. But I've realized that rather than writing code, my time is better...
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding Layout Algorithms
As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should...
over a year ago
As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should focus on how the language uses those properties to calculate layouts. In this blog post, we'll pop the hood on CSS and see how the language is structured, and how to learn it...
The Changelog
I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2
I have been looking for a good tablet for Debian for… well, years. I want thin, light, portable,...
over a year ago
I have been looking for a good tablet for Debian for… well, years. I want thin, light, portable, excellent battery life, and a servicable keyboard. For a while, I tried a Lenovo Chromebook Duet. It meets the hardware requirements, well sort of. The problem is with performance and...
bt RSS Feed
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser
2022-05-17
After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...
over a year ago
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser
2022-05-17
After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari.
This switch back doesn’t mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....
Evan Jones -...
Postgres large JSON value query performance
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and...
over a year ago
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 kiB, due to how...
A Smart Bear
For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and...
a year ago
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
A small freedom area...
Hacking window titles to help OBS
This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a
tiny project I wrote...
a year ago
This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a
tiny project I wrote the other day, WTH, or WindowTitleHack, which is
meant to force a constant window name for apps that keep changing it (I'm
looking specifically at Firefox and Krita, but there are...
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding useMemo and useCallback
What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of...
over a year ago
What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of reasons. In this tutorial, we'll dig deep and understand what they do, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them.
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Passwords are fine
I've spent too much of my professional life trying to build a better means of authentication.
For a...
a year ago
I've spent too much of my professional life trying to build a better means of authentication.
For a while I was fixated on Magic Links, then I built a few prototypes of authentication using a combination of token passing and TOTP. And finally, I built a storage-less password...
Vadim Kravcenko
My coworker rewrote all my code, what should I do?
Dear Robert, The short answer is — stop getting attached to your code. Now lets continue to a more...
11 months ago
Dear Robert, The short answer is — stop getting attached to your code. Now lets continue to a more detailed […]
The post My coworker rewrote all my code, what should I do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Ode to An Event Apart
I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career.
The...
a year ago
I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career.
The event I remember most fondly is An Event Apart: Austin in 2013. In my memory (which, granted, might be fuzzy) that conference was more about ideas than any specific technology. What I...
Irrational...
Notes on Enterprise Architecture as Strategy
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C Robertson is an...
a year ago
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C Robertson is an interesting read on how integrating technology across business units shifts the company’sstrategy landscape. Written in 2006, case studies are not particularly current but the ideas...
Joel Gascoigne
6 things I do to be consistently happy
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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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...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Why I cancelled my Replit subscription
<![CDATA[I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of...
a year ago
<![CDATA[I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of 2023.
Replit is a popular and growing multi language development environment in the cloud. I've been subscribing to the Hacker plan for the past few years and it worked well for my...
Dan Slimmon
Podcast appearance: The Debrief from Incident.io
I’m so grateful to Incident.io for the opportunity to shout from their rooftop about Clinical...
8 months ago
I’m so grateful to Incident.io for the opportunity to shout from their rooftop about Clinical troubleshooting, which I firmly believe is the way we should all be diagnosing system failures. Enjoy the full episode!
Alex MacCaw
The Beginning of Infinity
It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just...
over a year ago
It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just look up. There are a hundred billion stars in a hundred billion galaxies (that we know of!). What are we but a spec of dust? And don'
David Heinemeier...
Apple rejects the HEY Calendar from their App Store
There should at least be a standard of double jeopardy when it comes to the app store monopoly...
a year ago
There should at least be a standard of double jeopardy when it comes to the app store monopoly regimes. If you’ve managed to overturn a rejection of your service once, they can’t come after you on the same service again later. We could have used that today!
But unfortunately...
Chris Nicholas
Which blend mode?
This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for...
over a year ago
This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for use in the wild.
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 5: Wrapping up projects and starting a new one
Another week of my RC batch wraps up.
I'm done with five weeks, and seven weeks are left!
Time is...
over a year ago
Another week of my RC batch wraps up.
I'm done with five weeks, and seven weeks are left!
Time is still flying by, and I've hit an inflection point.
I have gotten what I want out of the two projects I've worked on so far, so I'm going to wrap them up and move on to one new...
macwright.com
Get the text of an uploaded file in Remix by ()
This took way too long to figure out.
The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and...
a year ago
This took way too long to figure out.
The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and .arrayBuffer() methods, which aren’t mentioned on MDN. So, assuming you’re in an action and the argument is args, you can get the body like:
const body = await...
Kagi Blog
Celebrating our first 20,000 members
Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* ,...
12 months ago
Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* , including over 1,500 families all over the world, in our community.
Alex Meub
Building a 3D Printer Enclosure
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would...
over a year ago
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
Tinker, Tamper,...
An Efficient Multi-Stage Build for Python Django in Docker
We’ve recently begun dockerizing our applications in an effort to make development and deployment...
over a year ago
We’ve recently begun dockerizing our applications in an effort to make development and deployment easier. One of the challenges was establishing a good baseline Dockerfile which can maximize the benefits of Dockers caching mechanism and at the same time provide minimal...
Eric Bailey
Re: Selling your extension
Although my fifteen minutes of fame for Millennials to Snake people is long over, I still get the...
over a year ago
Although my fifteen minutes of fame for Millennials to Snake people is long over, I still get the occasional email offering to:
Buy the extension outright, or
Pay me to add their code into it.
The goal of each offer is the same. The solicitor wants to add malicious code for some...
the singularity is...
the tiny corp raised $5.1M
Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank.
What is the tiny corp?
The...
a year ago
Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank.
What is the tiny corp?
The tiny corp is a computer company. We sell computers for more than they cost to make; I’ve been thinking about this one for a while. In the limit, it’s a chip company, but there’s a...
Maggie Appleton
A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases
The absolute minimum you need to know about data storage
over a year ago
The absolute minimum you need to know about data storage
Joel Gascoigne
Don't register your idea as a company
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over a year ago
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When to incorporate is one of those topics which comes up time and time again,
and there is much conflicting advice out there. I’m lucky enough to have a
number of different experiences and...
the jsomers.net blog
Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant
The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat...
over a year ago
The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat Hold'Em fatigue. The rules are simple: You're dealt five hole cards instead of two, and after each round of community cards comes out (starting with the flop), you discard one of these...
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...
3 months ago
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
TokyoDev
Japan's Earthquake and Technology
Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in...
over a year ago
Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in Northern
Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami).
Despite Tokyo being several hundred kilometers from the epicenter, it's
effects were felt even here (although to a much lesser extent than...
Elad Blog
Startup Decoupling & Reckoning
The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely...
a year ago
The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation. Implications are discussed.
Charles Chen
.NET Source Generators with .NET 7
Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
a year ago
Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
The History of the...
Filling gaps with a polyfill
In the early 2000s, Web 2.0 prompted new web standards, HTML5 and CSS3. Developers used 'shims' and...
11 months ago
In the early 2000s, Web 2.0 prompted new web standards, HTML5 and CSS3. Developers used 'shims' and 'polyfills' for browser compatibility, fostering innovation.
The post Filling gaps with a polyfill appeared first on The History of the Web.
Josh Collinsworth
The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals,...
10 months ago
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: 11 Mar 2024 - AI Lifestory app
back to my personal weight lows!
10 months ago
back to my personal weight lows!
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization
Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
over a year ago
Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to run Python and Portray on Netlify
How to deploy Python projects to Netlify
over a year ago
How to deploy Python projects to Netlify
Letters of Note
Better Letters of Note
Dear all, It gives me untold amounts of pleasure to announce that the Letters of Note website has...
over a year ago
Dear all, It gives me untold amounts of pleasure to announce that the Letters of Note website has been given its first facelift since I naively launched it in 2009 using a bog-standard Blogger template. I would like to thank, profusely but from a very safe distance, the patient...
Eric Bailey
The Radium Craze
Radium was discovered in 1898 by Polish chemist Marie Sklodowska Curie. To produce radium, you need...
over a year ago
Radium was discovered in 1898 by Polish chemist Marie Sklodowska Curie. To produce radium, you need to extract it from pitchblende, an ore that contains uranium.
Radium was discovered in working with the known properties of pitchblende. Curie noticed that pitchblende in its...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes...
a year ago
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers . Paid ads is a…
Making software...
Embracing Slow Tech
Embracing Slow Tech
2022-11-22
I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux...
over a year ago
Embracing Slow Tech
2022-11-22
I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux through Wayland/Sway and it is going well so far. Setting things up was much easier than I initially expected. There were only a few minor tweaks I had to make, such as setting vim...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for...
over a year ago
I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for a retrospective.
The app
SumatraPDF is a multi-format (PDF, ePub, Mobi, comic book, DjVu, XPS, CHM) viewer for Windows and currently looks like this:
The...
HTMHell
#13 link or label
Bad code
<input type="checkbox" id="accept" required>
<label for="accept">
<a href="/legal"> I...
over a year ago
Bad code
<input type="checkbox" id="accept" required>
<label for="accept">
<a href="/legal"> I accept the confidentiality policy and data… </a>
</label>
Issues and how to fix them
It’s bad practice to nest elements with activation behavior (e.g. click).
Users don’t expect a new...
bt RSS Feed
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
2023-03-03
For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung...
a year ago
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
2023-03-03
For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung 27” UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn’t a bad setup, but I have since...
ntietz.com blog
Affirmations for bloggers
Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to.
Many of us start blogs, but most of...
7 months ago
Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to.
Many of us start blogs, but most of those blogs lie abandoned or sporadically updated.
It's okay if you start blogging and figure out it's not really for you.
But there are also some common issues that block people...
Maggie Appleton
Squish Meets Structure
Designing with Language Models
a year ago
Designing with Language Models
Eric Bailey
Don't Use The Placeholder Attribute
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.1.0
Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like...
over a year ago
Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your…
wingolog
finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera
Consider
. Compared
to finalizers, in which the ,
guardians allow the mutator to control...
6 months ago
Consider
. Compared
to finalizers, in which the ,
guardians allow the mutator to control concurrency. See
for more notes. Java’s
/
seems to be similar in spirit, though the details differ.guardianscleanup procedures are run concurrently
with the mutator, by the...
ntietz.com blog
My portable ergonomic setup
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms.
It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I...
7 months ago
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms.
It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I couldn't type, and at the worst I couldn't pick up our kids.
That episode spontaneously resolved after a couple of months, but flareups happen occasionally.
One guaranteed trigger...
ntietz.com blog
Achieving awful compression with digits of pi
Compression is a really hard problem, and it attracts a lot of interesting ideas.
There are some...
10 months ago
Compression is a really hard problem, and it attracts a lot of interesting ideas.
There are some numbers whose digits contain all sequences of digits1.
People have long hypothesized that pi is one such number; a proof remains elusive.
If we have a number which contains all...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why open-source projects are essential for large businesses
The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel...
over a year ago
The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel of modern technology’s canon and it continues to…
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Framework DIY 13 gen AMD review ⚙️
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Framework Laptop DIY 13 AMD, 13th Generation with ethernet dongle and...
a year ago
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Framework Laptop DIY 13 AMD, 13th Generation with ethernet dongle and screwdriver
The laptop industry is a
tragedy.
Meanwhile, Framework built something
different—repairable, Linux-ready laptops that respect
users. Framework is a rare company worth...
David Heinemeier...
For what it'll make of you
I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints...
4 months ago
I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints on a treadmill. They make you reach for a million dollars in revenue, celebrate for a second, and then turn the chase to five million the minute after. No thanks. But specific,...
Joel Gascoigne
Reflecting on ways to bootstrap a startup
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over a year ago
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If you are a first time startup founder, or have done a few projects but are
still working either full-time or freelancing part-time, you are likely to
struggle to find investment for your startup...
Cognitive...
From Zero to Fineturning with Axolotl on ROCm
Gratitude to https://tensorwave.com/ for giving me access to their excellent servers!
Few have tried...
10 months ago
Gratitude to https://tensorwave.com/ for giving me access to their excellent servers!
Few have tried this and fewer have succeeded. I've been marginally successful after a significant amount of effort, so it deserves a blog post.
Know that you are in for rough waters. And even...
Founder's blog
Reasons NOT to upgrade ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core (but you will have to anyway)
I know, I know, .NET Core is the future of .NET, and "cross-platform blah-blah", and...
over a year ago
I know, I know, .NET Core is the future of .NET, and "cross-platform blah-blah", and "high-performance and scalable blah-blah", and also "microservices!!! containers!!!" etc. Even more - I understand that's it's inevitable. But still. Consider this an angry post on what's wrong...
Quentin Santos
ViHN: Vim for Hacker News
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s...
11 months ago
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s freely available on Firefox and Chrome. This is about yet another Hacker News extension. But other people with my obsession for killing the mouse might enjoy it. Most of the...
Basta’s Notes
No sacred masterpieces
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
a year ago
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How useRef turned out to be useMemo's father
It's no secret that react's useCallback is just sugar on top of useMemo that saves the children from...
over a year ago
It's no secret that react's useCallback is just sugar on top of useMemo that saves the children from having to see an arrow chain. As the docs go:
useCallback((e) => onChange(id, e.target.value), [onChange, id]);
// is equivalent to
useMemo(() => (e) => onChange(id,...
Joel Gascoigne
The third option
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In the recent months I’ve realized I am very much in a bubble. Everyone I know
is building a company. Amongst my circle of friends, that is the norm. This,
however, is mostly out of choice: I...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
LLMs, Intuition, and Working With Computers
I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood...
a year ago
I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood out:
For the best [prompt] results, combine:
Domain knowledge of the thing you're working on
Understanding how the models work
Intuition gained from playing around with them a lot
I am...
bt RSS Feed
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
2022-12-23
The Desire to Suckless
While I have been happy with my...
over a year ago
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
2022-12-23
The Desire to Suckless
While I have been happy with my previous desktop setup using Wayland on Alpine Linux, I just couldn’t shake the urge to fully embrace the suckless ecosystem. Although, this meant ditching Wayland and returning...
A Beautiful Site
A clever way to style the <mark> element
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in...
over a year ago
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials:
Most textual highlights use a boring rectangle background color, but this stands out and looks gorgeous. I was really hoping they were using a simple <mark>...
wingolog
whippet progress update: funding, features, future
Greets greets! Today, an update on recent progress in
, including sponsorship, a
new collector, and...
6 months ago
Greets greets! Today, an update on recent progress in
, including sponsorship, a
new collector, and a new feature.Whippet
But first, a reminder of what the haps: Whippet is a garbage collector
library. The target audience is language run-time authors, particularly
“small”...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Monitoring my indoor air quality
Fri, 19 May 2023 Denver air quality live
cam
If there’s one thing that feels like it’s gotten worse...
a year ago
Fri, 19 May 2023 Denver air quality live
cam
If there’s one thing that feels like it’s gotten worse in my
lifetime, it’s air quality.
Colorado’s air quality last week was dismal, filled with smoke from
Canadian wildfires, making Denver’s air quality among the worst
of any major...
Eric Bailey
Zombie Slack channels
I’ve witnessed this phenomenon across enough corporate Slack workspaces that I think I can speak to...
a year ago
I’ve witnessed this phenomenon across enough corporate Slack workspaces that I think I can speak to it with confidence.
What is a zombie Slack channel?
If you use Slack (or Teams, or some other similar app) at work I’m sure you’ve encountered zombie channels before.
Zombie Slack...
HTMHell
#25 A link is a button is a link
Note: We've removed most classes to improve readability.
Bad code
<a tabindex="0" type="button"...
over a year ago
Note: We've removed most classes to improve readability.
Bad code
<a tabindex="0" type="button" href="/signup" role="link">
<span class="focus" tabindex="-1"></span>
<span>
<span>
<span>Sign up</span>
<i class="icon icon-external-link" aria-hidden="true"...
Eric Bailey
Sandcastles
Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions...
a year ago
Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions about how sandcastles should be built.
Nelson's Weblog
Liftmaster 87504-267
This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a...
over a year ago
This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a new garage door opener, the Liftmaster 87504-267. It works so much better than my old insecure garage door!
Internet access is the surprise best feature; I use it all the time....
blag
An exploit on Gaana.com gave me access to their entire User Database
In May, 2015 I found an exploit on Gaana.com, which let me access their entire User Database (more...
over a year ago
In May, 2015 I found an exploit on Gaana.com, which let me access their entire User Database (more than 10 Million) which included all the user info.
Joel Gascoigne
How we handle team emails at our startup: Defaulting to transparency
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just joined and we’re now 16 people. Toby joined us as a Backend Hacker
[http://jobs.bufferapp.com/backend-hacker],...
bt RSS Feed
Text Align: Justify
Text Align: Justify
2019-05-22
The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS,...
over a year ago
Text Align: Justify
2019-05-22
The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS, even among those just starting out with the language. Values such as center, left and right are used often with this property, but a more forgotten option is justify.
What does...
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...
over a year ago
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...
ntietz.com blog
Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature
Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap."
Or...
a year ago
Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap."
Or this one: "We don't need to make it accessible since we don't have any blind users
1
."
It belies an attitude that's all too common in the software industry:
That accessibility...
orlp.net - Blog...
Magical Fibonacci Formulae
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci
sequence, without loops,
recursion or floating...
a year ago
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci
sequence, without loops,
recursion or floating point arithmetic:
f=lambda n:(b:=2<<n)**n*b//(b*b-b-1)%b
It really does:
>>> [f(n) for n in range(10)]
[0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34]
How does it work? As a teaser, look at...
Florian Bellmann |...
Every product needs an architecture vision
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture...
11 months ago
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture vision can prevent that from happening.
Stephen Wolfram...
How to Think Computationally about AI, The Universe and Everything
Transcript of a talk at TED AI on October 17, 2023, in San Francisco Human language. Mathematics....
a year ago
Transcript of a talk at TED AI on October 17, 2023, in San Francisco Human language. Mathematics. Logic. These are all ways to formalize the world. And in our century there’s a new and yet more powerful one: computation. And for nearly 50 years I’ve had the great privilege of...
Blog System/5
20 years of blogging
A recap of my experience writing a blog for 20 years straight and the transition to writing a...
7 months ago
A recap of my experience writing a blog for 20 years straight and the transition to writing a newsletter using Substack.
alexwlchan
Turning off ECS tasks overnight using an EventBridge Schedule
At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to.
For example,...
a year ago
At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to.
For example, we have a staging version of our website, where we test new changes before they’re deployed to the live site.
We’re only making changes during UK office hours, so running the...
Ink & Switch
01 · Welcome to the Beehive
An introduction to the Beehive project
4 months ago
An introduction to the Beehive project
ntietz.com blog
Using search as a primary datastore since the docs said not to
Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip.
Then I just have to do...
4 months ago
Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip.
Then I just have to do it.
So when I saw that the Typesense docs say not to use it as a primary datastore?
Well well well, that's what we'll have to do.
I spent a little bit of time figuring out what a...
Code Of Honor
The making of Warcraft part 2
In my previous article about Warcraft I talked about the beginnings of a series that would come to...
over a year ago
In my previous article about Warcraft I talked about the beginnings of a series that would come to define Blizzard Entertainment and lead it to being one of the best-known and most-loved game companies in the world. But how did Warcraft go from an idea to a full-fledged game? Let...
Miguel Carranza
From J1 visa to Blue Passport: A startup founder's immigration journey
I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times,...
9 months ago
I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times, but this will be the first time I’ll be using my shiny blue passport. No anxiety about aggressive questions, secondary inspection, or the possibility of deportation. A couple of...
A Smart Bear
Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company
Reflecting on selling Smart Bear in 2007, offering insights for entrepreneurs facing similar...
a year ago
Reflecting on selling Smart Bear in 2007, offering insights for entrepreneurs facing similar decisions.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Solving the mystery of PostHog’s missing session recordings
Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source...
over a year ago
Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source ression replay tools available. It allows you to see…
Nelson's Weblog
Proxmox
Proxmox is good software
for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that
lets...
a year ago
Proxmox is good software
for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that
lets you easily run multiple virtual machines and LXC containers. It
also manages disk storage and has some more complex support for high
availability in a cluster, distributed storage...
David Heinemeier...
Rails World sold out in less than 45 minutes
There hasn't been a major, dedicated Rails conference in Europe since 2008, so perhaps it's no...
a year ago
There hasn't been a major, dedicated Rails conference in Europe since 2008, so perhaps it's no surprise that there was pent-up demand. But I was still shocked to see the forthcoming Rails World visit to Amsterdam sell out in less than 45 minutes yesterday! What an awesome...
macwright.com
Thoughts on storing stuff in databases by ()
User preferences should be columns in the users table. Don’t get clever with a json column or...
a year ago
User preferences should be columns in the users table. Don’t get clever with a json column or hstore. When you introduce new preferences, the power of types and default values is worth the headache of managing columns.
Emails should probably be citext, case-insensitive text. But...
Charles Chen
Programmatically Invoke Cloud Run Jobs with Runtime Overrides
Love Google Cloud Run but need to be able to programmatically invoke long running jobs?
a year ago
Love Google Cloud Run but need to be able to programmatically invoke long running jobs?
HTMHell
The Implied Web
by Halvor William Sanden
People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get...
a year ago
by Halvor William Sanden
People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get attention and herd people towards clicks increase cognitive effort because they obscure themselves and reduce interfaces to clickable surfaces.
The implied web is based on the idea...
A small freedom area...
Saving a restic backup the hard way
This is the end of the holidays in which I spent a long time building a backup
infrastructure like a...
over a year ago
This is the end of the holidays in which I spent a long time building a backup
infrastructure like a responsible adult. The villain of the following story is
the junk MIPS machine which held hostage most of my important data (about 1TB).
Its evil plan was to build up a corrupted...
Making software...
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
2019-04-15
I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end...
over a year ago
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
2019-04-15
I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end developers since the newest build of jQuery (3.4.0) released a couple of days ago. While I understand not all developers share the same work-style or are using the same tech-stack,...
Making software...
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD
2023-06-05
VSCode and its many variations are not available on...
a year ago
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 Heinemeier...
What you know that just ain't so
The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower...
2 months ago
The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower or leave it alone? Should we chase these customers over here or those customers over there? Should we add more features or polish the ones we have? There's endless variation in...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How PostHog uses Wren to offset carbon emissions during offsites
Earlier this month, we finished our first PostHog offsite of the year near Porto, in Portugal. Team...
over a year ago
Earlier this month, we finished our first PostHog offsite of the year near Porto, in Portugal. Team members travelled from America, Estonia, The…
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes)
Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes)
2023-05-05
I recently tooted about my hatred of website...
a year ago
Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes)
2023-05-05
I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus which was met with a surprising amount of support from other users. It seems like most people don’t actually like hamburger menus. So why do we, as developers, keep...
A Beautiful Site
Semantic version numbers
Gone are the days of arbitrarily assigning version numbers to every new software release. With...
over a year ago
Gone are the days of arbitrarily assigning version numbers to every new software release. With semantic versioning, the question of how and when to bump versions is made simple.
According to semver.org, the syntax for version numbers should go like this: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
When...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to transcribe podcast audio (WhisperX with speaker diarization)
I do a lot of podcast transcription work and had need for it again today. The HuggingFace spaces...
a year ago
I do a lot of podcast transcription work and had need for it again today. The HuggingFace spaces (like this one https://huggingface.co/spaces/vumichien/whisper-speaker-diarization) always error out so aren't very useful.
bt RSS Feed
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble
2022-09-08
Everyday a new designer begins their journey...
over a year ago
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble
2022-09-08
Everyday a new designer begins their journey into the world of insert design industry here and it is magical! Having a fresh pair of eyes untainted from the current trends of the time can help improve design as a whole....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil
What if we just assumed we might have two of everything?
over a year ago
What if we just assumed we might have two of everything?
Nelson's Weblog
Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at
Reed College. It was a fun...
over a year ago
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at
Reed College. It was a fun project, studying
a discrete dynamic system that was an extension of the
Ising
model. Sort of cellular automata meets statistical mechanics.
It's the only significant thing I've...
Epic Web Dev
Two Factor Auth is Included in the Epic Stack (tip)
A Two Factor Authentication implementation has been added to the Epic Stack. Check it out!
a year ago
A Two Factor Authentication implementation has been added to the Epic Stack. Check it out!
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...
a year ago
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...
Jake Zimmerman
Approximating strace with Instruments.app
3 months ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
The boy who cried risk
On a recent project, I worked with a principal engineer. He’s a very prolific contributor and...
a year ago
On a recent project, I worked with a principal engineer. He’s a very prolific contributor and involved in several projects. Most of his contributions are related to risk management.
That made me think about the other senior-most engineers and what they work on, leading me to...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse
We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of...
a year ago
We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of data we process every day. In doing this at scale for…
Ferd.ca
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
2022/12/15
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
One of the things I knew right when I started at...
over a year ago
2022/12/15
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
One of the things I knew right when I started at my current job is that a lot of my work would be for "nothing." I'm saying this because I work (as Staff SRE) for an observability vendor, and engineers tend to operate under the...
Eric Bailey
Crafting a chatbot people will use: Part 2
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning
My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving...
over a year ago
My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider mandatory:
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog Launch Week I: A Universe of New Features
PostHog made huge strides in 2021. To name just a few landmarks, we: Raised a $15 million Series B...
over a year ago
PostHog made huge strides in 2021. To name just a few landmarks, we: Raised a $15 million Series B ahead of schedule Became one of YC's top-valued…
HTMHell
Smooth Multi-Page Experiences with Just a Few Lines of CSS
by John Allsopp
A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications...
a month ago
by John Allsopp
A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications (and web sites for those who maintain there's a difference), opening up new possibilities for web app architectures, and website experiences. So let’s take a look at View...
Elad Blog
Transcript & Video: Fireside w/ Dylan Field
Figma, AI, Design, & Education
a year ago
Figma, AI, Design, & Education
Steve Klabnik
Beware subclassing Ruby core classes
over a year ago
Charles Chen
C# Discriminated Unions and .NET Channels
For parallel processing of records, C# discriminated unions and .NET System.Threading.Channels make...
6 months ago
For parallel processing of records, C# discriminated unions and .NET System.Threading.Channels make it easy.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.14.0
Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of...
over a year ago
Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of interviews with users and had a lot of discussions with…
Joel Gascoigne
How to gain traction in two sided markets
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over a year ago
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off the ground. It’s the age-old chicken and egg problem. You need lots of
buyers for the sellers to be interested,...
David Heinemeier...
Breaking the inertia of mediocrity
It's rarely the terrible decisions, processes, or even people that'll sink your organization. It's...
a year ago
It's rarely the terrible decisions, processes, or even people that'll sink your organization. It's the accumulation and inertia of the mediocre ones. Dealing with the truly bad is easy. It's painfully obvious to all that change is required. The danger is imminent. It's much...
Steve Klabnik
How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
over a year ago
macwright.com
Don't use marked
With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their...
12 months ago
With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their obligation to maintain compatibility, I just have to put it out there: if you have a new JavaScript/TypeScript project and you need to parse or render Markdown, why are you using...
Confessions of a...
Connecting CPython's GC Internals to Real-World Performance
Learn how the knowledge of CPython internals translate into performance insights for your code
3 months ago
Learn how the knowledge of CPython internals translate into performance insights for your code
Eric Bailey
A conversation can be an output
over a year ago
Making software...
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0
2020-09-29
I have found that there is a lot of information...
over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0
2020-09-29
I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up "dynamic" navigation in Jekyll. The problem I've noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
A Smart Bear
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad...
over a year ago
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad idea” isn’t enough of a prompt. These questions will stretch you beyond your daily experience; if you’re lucky, they could even lead to a unique business model and a long-term...
Remains of the Day
Status as a Service (StaaS)
Editor's Note 1: I have no editor.
Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this...
over a year ago
Editor's Note 1: I have no editor.
Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one. My long break from posting here means that this piece is a collection of what would’ve normally...
Blog System/5
Revisiting the DOS memory models
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to...
3 months ago
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There was one question that came up and remained unanswered: what were the various “models” that the compilers of the day offered?
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Monitoring my weather at home 🌩️
Davis Vantage Wireless Console/Reciever,
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, RTC module—the heart of my...
a year ago
Davis Vantage Wireless Console/Reciever,
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, RTC module—the heart of my weather
center
Despite their best efforts, all weather apps will eventually lie.
Weather is often hyper-local. For example, trying to suss out the
temperature this...
macwright.com
Homeownership
Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house
and they can’t, or...
a year ago
Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house
and they can’t, or they’ve bought a house. The desire to own ones own home is
almost universal in the people I know in the US. It’s even stronger for folks
who live outside of major cities. And people...
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
2022-09-02
I’ve recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as...
over a year ago
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
2022-09-02
I’ve recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as my daily operating system. So far, it has been going fairly well. Nothing will probably ever feel as “optimized” as running a Linux-based system but it works well for my current...
A small freedom area...
Exploring intricate execution mysteries by reversing a crackme
It's been a very long time since I've done some actual reverse engineering
work. Going through a...
over a year ago
It's been a very long time since I've done some actual reverse engineering
work. Going through a difficult period currently, I needed to take a break from
the graphics world and go back to the roots: understanding obscure or
elementary tech stuff. One may argue that it was most...
Josh Collinsworth
Impressions of the ZSA Moonlander at one month
My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal...
a year ago
My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal and work projects for a full month
swyx's site RSS Feed
A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
over a year ago
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
Eric Bailey
Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable
Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall...
7 months ago
Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall “feature”.
Talking to even one person who works in cybersecurity, political advocacy, domestic abuse prevention, LGBTQ+ support, etc. would reveal the full, naked horror this sort of...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
I conducted 60 interviews in 2 months — here's what I learned
It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired...
a year ago
It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired 10 people into our team. It's been extremely tiring: around 80 hours of active interviewing, plus writing interview reports, plus screening CVs and take-home assignments, plus...
The Pragmatic...
Domain Registrars which Developers Recommend
I asked software engineers to recommend domain registrars and more than 250 people responded. The...
a year ago
I asked software engineers to recommend domain registrars and more than 250 people responded. The most popular are Cloudflare, Namecheap and Porkbun. Why do devs like them?
David Heinemeier...
Pessimism is on the retreat
I feel it in the feed. I feel it in the discourse. I smell it in the vibes.
Much of the pessimism...
a year ago
I feel it in the feed. I feel it in the discourse. I smell it in the vibes.
Much of the pessimism that once was is lost, for none now wish to remember it.
We’ve lived through some strange years in the recent past. Much stranger than any I can remember since my earliest, solid...
The History of the...
The Free Web
There is something you can do to help the open web. Put yourself on it.
The post The Free Web...
a month ago
There is something you can do to help the open web. Put yourself on it.
The post The Free Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Keeping track of visited URLs in WebCard
<![CDATA[WebCard has very limited control over the web browser of the host operating system.
It can...
3 months ago
<![CDATA[WebCard has very limited control over the web browser of the host operating system.
It can only command the browser to visit a URL when the user traverses a Web link or executes the Visit URL menu command. But with no precautions the browser would open a new tab for...
charity.wtf
“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...
a month ago
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...
TokyoDev
Employer of Record (EOR) Services in Japan
EoR. Few employers seems to fully understand how it works, and even fewer working professionals have...
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.
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beep.blog
.io considered harmful
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their...
a year ago
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
Irrational...
Engineering strategy notes.
Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy,
and as part of that have started...
a year ago
Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy,
and as part of that have started re-reading previous resources
on the topic, and looking for new things to read while I refine
my point of view on what makes for good engineering strategy.
The best introduction to my...
Seán Barry
Presentation: Building a High Volume Data Processing Pipeline in JavaScript
There's more to JavaScript than e-commerce websites and web banners. This presentation is about an...
over a year ago
There's more to JavaScript than e-commerce websites and web banners. This presentation is about an ETL pipeline I built with a microservice architecture in JavaScript and some of the lessons I learned as part of the process.
Joel Gascoigne
From startup to scaleup: What we’re changing as we make the transition
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
over a year ago
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog
[https://open.buffer.com/from-startup-to-scaleup-what-were-changing-as-we-make-the-transition/]
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In the past couple of months, I’ve had a number of thoughts around the growth
Buffer has experienced in the last year and some...
ntietz.com blog
Where is the source code for ping?
Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to...
over a year ago
Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to deepen my knowledge of networks. I'm just going for a super basic utility here, nothing fancy, not even all the features of ping. But since the language is new to me and my...
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Array 1.4.0
Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array...
over a year ago
Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array 1.4.0 brings plenty of improvements to our core…
Patrick Kayongo
Stimela
23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya...
a year ago
23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya asked this while squashing the newspaper within her clenched fist. Her lips were quivering, her face contorted to hold back the tears of anger and fear. “My brother went to the mines...
Quentin Santos
Git Super-Power: The Three-Way Merge
tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one...
8 months ago
tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one true way to merge MRs in a git workflow. The answer is obviously to rebase for conflicts, and a merge commit for posterity of the MR. What I did not talk about is that there is a...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, April 2024
The ware for April 2024 is shown below: In some ways, this is a much easier ware than last month’s,...
8 months ago
The ware for April 2024 is shown below: In some ways, this is a much easier ware than last month’s, but I wonder if anyone will be able to name the precise function of this ware. Thanks to Ole for taking the photo, and for the adventures en route to the teardown!
Marc Astbury
Mini Programs v.s. Native Apps
After spending a few weeks in China, the most notable behavioural difference is the usage of...
5 months ago
After spending a few weeks in China, the most notable behavioural difference is the usage of mini-programs. Every restaurant has a menu mini-program sitting on top of WeChat or Meituan. Hello Ride the bike-sharing startup is a mini program on top of Alipay. Here is a diagram...
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Supervised Learning: Classification Learning & Decision Trees
The simplest form of Classification algorithm
over a year ago
The simplest form of Classification algorithm
Steve Klabnik
Rust's documentation is about to drastically improve
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge" in Rust
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
7 things you may not know about useState
Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some...
over a year ago
Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some awesome features (and nasty pitfalls) useState offers. Since it's one of my favourite hooks, I decided to help spread a word. Don't expect any huge revelations, but here're the 7 facts...
somenice
Generative Art on a Round TFT Display
I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px...
a year ago
I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px round TFT display. The results look amazing. Using the IOT capable Adafruit Qualia Board and 2.1″ Round TFT with capacitive touch it’s programmed using CircuitPython. I look forward to...
Making software...
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
2019-06-11
Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a...
over a year ago
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
2019-06-11
Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a previous post about how changing the display properties on tables can impact screen readers. I highly recommend his excellent article Tables, CSS Display Properties, and ARIA
I find...
David Heinemeier...
Beware the leviathans
I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for...
10 months ago
I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for years now. Especially with those awful app store monopolies that have been choking out developers left, right, and center. But now that something finally looks to be happening, I'm...
Irrational...
How to create software quality.
I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a...
7 months ago
I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a memo discussed in the Zero Defects chapter:
You can improve the quality of your code, and if you do, the rewards
for yourself and for Microsoft will be immense.
The hardest part is...
A Smart Bear
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad...
over a year ago
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad idea” isn’t enough of a prompt. These questions will stretch you beyond your daily experience; if you’re lucky, they could even lead to a unique business model and a long-term...
The Pragmatic...
The state of startup funding
I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far,...
a year ago
I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far, it’s downwards. What does this mean for tech? My analysis.
Julia Evans
Confusing git terminology
Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that
after almost 15...
a year ago
Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that
after almost 15 years of using git, I’ve become very used to git’s
idiosyncracies and it’s easy for me to forget what’s confusing about it.
So I asked people on Mastodon:
what git jargon do you find...
A Smart Bear
Discount gambit
Discounting is the typical sales technique, but refusing to discount can lead to a much better...
a year ago
Discounting is the typical sales technique, but refusing to discount can lead to a much better business, even in the Enterprise.
Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
over a year ago
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
Steve Klabnik
How often does Rust change?
over a year ago
Chris Nicholas
How to animate multiplayer cursors
Smoothly rendering live cursors is more difficult than it sounds when real-world conditions are...
over a year ago
Smoothly rendering live cursors is more difficult than it sounds when real-world conditions are taken into account.
blag
Recurse Center Day 2: BTree Node
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to...
over a year ago
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to write as much as possible, log my daily learnings and activities. But, I also don't want to spend time on grammar and prose, so I am publishing all the posts which usually I'd have...
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Netlify Year One
> Update: I have since [left Netlify](https://dev.to/swyx/farewell-netlify-1alo).
over a year ago
> Update: I have since [left Netlify](https://dev.to/swyx/farewell-netlify-1alo).
Jibran’s Perspective
Bootstrap with Ruby on Rails 7
If you have a brand new RoR 7 project that you created with the defaults by running rails new...
over a year ago
If you have a brand new RoR 7 project that you created with the defaults by running rails new <PROJECT> then you can safely follow the following steps to get Bootstrap 5 installed in your project.
Install gems
Add the following to your Gemfile and run bundle install.
gem...
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: React
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand.
In this post, we’ll be answering the question: what is React?
We’ll look into its origins, usage, explain key terminology and also cover how and why...
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Array 1.5.0
Another week, another PostHog Array. We're steadily working towards parity with other tools. This...
over a year ago
Another week, another PostHog Array. We're steadily working towards parity with other tools. This week's highlights include a new website, multiple…
Joel Gascoigne
5 reasons as a CEO you should develop a habit of daily meditation
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over a year ago
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Through my journey from a founder whose role it was to essentially build the
product and code all day, to growing into a CEO role with more management duties
and a fast growing team of 7 people,...
Steve Klabnik
Fast Rails tests with CanCan
over a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
Lie still in bed
I found it very difficult to switch to a regular sleep, and wake, schedule after university.
I even...
a year ago
I found it very difficult to switch to a regular sleep, and wake, schedule after university.
I even started using one of the loudest and most annoying alarm clocks I could find. (That sound still gives my university housemate flashbacks.)
In my search for ways to fix my sleep...
TokyoDev
Japanese Language Proficiency, Job Requirements, and You
Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be...
5 months ago
Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be vague and confusing, as there is no single, clear-cut system used in Japan to define foreigners’ language proficiencies.
There are a few systems commonly used to measure language...
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Clickable Links Inside XML
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I...
over a year ago
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch1 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...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python
I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
a month ago
I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
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
8 months ago
Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse
Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word
Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been
using a method where...
7 months ago
Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been
using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and
go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing
inspirational words was a bit of a...
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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...
over a year ago
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.
Darek Kay
Git explained: Commit ranges
Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept...
over a year ago
Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept ranges of commits in different formats, which can be confusing. In this post, I will shed some light on the differences between a b, a..b and a...b commit ranges. Check out the...
The Pragmatic...
Behind the Scenes with Two New Salary Transparency Websites
On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have...
a year ago
On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have launched, built by the creators of Levels.fyi and Layoffs.fyi. I talked to both teams to learn how they were developed.
dthompson
Chickadee 0.9.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.9.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development...
over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.9.0 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.
Notable improvements and...
alexwlchan
Adding locations to my photos from my Apple Watch workouts
A week or so ago, I was hiking around Lake Bohinj, a gorgeous Alpine lake in northwest...
a year ago
A week or so ago, I was hiking around Lake Bohinj, a gorgeous Alpine lake in northwest Slovenia.
It’s a very photogenic landscape, so I was taking some pictures with my “nice” camera.
It’s an Olympus that takes better photos than my iPhone, but it’s quite old and it doesn’t have...
Maggie Appleton
What the Fork is Babel?
Illustrated notes on how Babel works
over a year ago
Illustrated notes on how Babel works
Epic Web Dev
Creating Glassmorphism Effects with Tailwind CSS (tip)
Learn how to create glassmorphism effects using the backdrop blur in Tailwind CSS and achieve...
a year ago
Learn how to create glassmorphism effects using the backdrop blur in Tailwind CSS and achieve realistic translucent credit card designs.
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A simple guide to personal data and PII
Engineers and product managers need to be vigilant when collecting user data. Punitive GDPR fines...
over a year ago
Engineers and product managers need to be vigilant when collecting user data. Punitive GDPR fines can run to €20 million or 4% of a company's global…
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My 2024 New Mac Setup
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
2 months ago
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
Eric Bailey
Lighthouse
Lighthouse is an open source auditing tool made by Google to help developers understand how well...
over a year ago
Lighthouse is an open source auditing tool made by Google to help developers understand how well their site is doing in terms of four metrics: Performance, Best Practices, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and Accessibility. If you’re feeling adventurous, it will also measure...
Steve Klabnik
Why is Clojure so stable?
over a year ago
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How to work out what your users really need
Understanding the needs of your users better than anyone else is critical for the success of any...
over a year ago
Understanding the needs of your users better than anyone else is critical for the success of any product. For years, taxis solved the primary user…
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The introduction to TypeScript Generics you've been missing
> Note: this is an unfinished draft, but I'm sharing it anyway as an outline
over a year ago
> Note: this is an unfinished draft, but I'm sharing it anyway as an outline
Joel Gascoigne
Work and rest in a startup
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I’m writing this...
over a year ago
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I’m writing this from Javea, Spain
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. I arrived here a couple of days...
Vadim Kravcenko
What questions to ask a startup before joining them?
Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared...
over a year ago
Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared […]
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