Marco.org
Clip sharing with Overcast
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
over a year ago
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014.
Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
Acko.net
Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams
Hassle free GLSL
I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side...
over a year ago
Hassle free GLSL
I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side project to come up with a composable and incremental way of driving WebGPU and GPUs in general.
#pragma import { getColor } from 'path/to/color'
void main() {
gl_FragColor =...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for
Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their...
a year ago
Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their typical approach is to look at the long list of admin…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Three Jobs of Containers
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
over a year ago
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
The Changelog
The Good, Bad, and Scary of the Banning of Donald Trump, and How Decentralization Makes It All...
It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit...
over a year ago
It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit for the moment. It may well save lives, perhaps lots of lives. But it raises quite a few troubling issues. First, as EFF points out, these platforms have privileged speakers with...
bt RSS Feed
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
2021-12-17
Designing1 software is a complex...
over a year ago
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
2021-12-17
Designing1 software is a complex thing. A great deal of real-world testing and user feedback is needed to create the best solution to the problem you are trying to fix. Obvious requirements are to keep things...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.20.0
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog...
over a year ago
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog…
Ink & Switch
Capstone: A tablet for thinking
Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
over a year ago
Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we’re making PostHog deployments easier
When PostHog was born in 2020, it was a simple Python application (Django + Celery) backed by a...
over a year ago
When PostHog was born in 2020, it was a simple Python application (Django + Celery) backed by a PostgreSQL datastore. Troubleshooting was easy, while…
Maggie Appleton
The Bare Essentials of Greensock
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Are many useStates better than useState(object)?
Lately I've converted a lot of class components to functional. One question left me curious every...
over a year ago
Lately I've converted a lot of class components to functional. One question left me curious every time — why do I feel like splitting the old class state into so many useState(atom) — one for each state key? Is there any real benefit in it? Should I just leave a single...
Computer Things
"Integration tests" are just vibes
New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software...
7 months ago
New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software cause us to miss deadlines, and how we can address some of them. Patreon here.
"Integration tests" are just vibes
You should write more unit tests than integration tests. You should...
James Vaughan's blog
Saving $167,000 on Groceries
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Spinning Worlds, Seasickness, and Dealing with Vestibular Neuritis
9 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
Joining ellipses with matching tangents
In my previous entry I wrote about constructing a four-point egg,
using curcular arcs that join...
10 months ago
In my previous entry I wrote about constructing a four-point egg,
using curcular arcs that join where their tangents are at 45°.
I wondered if I could do something similar with ellipses.
As before, I made an interactive ellipse workbench to
experiment with the problem. I got...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tutorial for github.com/kjk/flex Go package (implementation of CSS flexbox algorithm)
Package github.com/kjk/flex implements CSS flexbox layout algorithm in Go.
It’s a pure Go port of...
over a year ago
Package github.com/kjk/flex implements CSS flexbox layout algorithm in Go.
It’s a pure Go port of Facebook’s Yoga C library.
High-level API overview
Despite implementing CSS flexbox spec, it isn’t tied to CSS/HTML in any way. Yoga, for example, can be integrated with...
Kagi Blog
Kagi passes an independent security audit
Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant (...
over a year ago
Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant ( https://www.illumant.com ) , an independent security auditor.
Acko.net
On Variance and Extensibility
Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job
Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very...
over a year ago
Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job
Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very poorly understood in the software industry. This might seem strange to say, as you are reading this in a web browser, on an operating system, desktop or mobile. They are by all...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Robots.txt
A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing...
a year ago
A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing your personal website using robots.txt:
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
That felt a bit “ex post facto“ as they say. Or, as Jeremy put it, “Now that the horse has bolted—and...
Alice GG
How to solve it (with raycasting)
In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”.
It aims at helping math...
7 months ago
In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”.
It aims at helping math teachers guide their students into solving abstract problems by asking the right questions.
It has since had a large influence on math education and computer science, to the point of...
Tinloof - Blog
How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 1)
This series of articles is made out of two parts:
In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user...
over a year ago
This series of articles is made out of two parts:
In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS.
In the second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
The Pragmatic...
A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed
For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured...
a year ago
For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been?
ntietz.com blog
"Help, I see a problem and no one is prioritizing it!"
A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring.
The...
10 months ago
A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring.
The specific problem doesn't matter, so don't focus on the technical details here.
Hey Nicole!
At $DAYJOB, we have some big problems and it's frustrating, I keep pointing them out and...
somenice
The Micro One-Armed Bandit
Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython...
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....
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...
7 months ago
Yesterday we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython virtual machine (VM) or the bytecode interpreter implementation.
Josh Comeau's blog
A Modern CSS Reset
I have a set of baseline CSS styles that come with me from project to project. In the past, I'd use...
over a year ago
I have a set of baseline CSS styles that come with me from project to project. In the past, I'd use a typical CSS reset, but times have changed, and I believe I have a better set of global styles!
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware November 2023
The Ware for November 2023 is a Lucira at home Covid test. Congrats to Jon Neal for nailing it,...
11 months ago
The Ware for November 2023 is a Lucira at home Covid test. Congrats to Jon Neal for nailing it, email me for your prize! Here’s some more images of the ware for your enjoyment.
Oxide Computer...
The Cloud Computer
Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first
commercial cloud computer —...
a year ago
Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first
commercial cloud computer — along with
our $44M Series A financing.
From the outset at Oxide, and as I outlined in
my 2020 Stanford talk,
we have had three core beliefs as a company:
Cloud computing is the...
TokyoDev
Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook
At the beginning of the year, I bought a new M2 MacBook Air for ¥220,800 (about 1,500 USD) on Apple...
a year ago
At the beginning of the year, I bought a new M2 MacBook Air for ¥220,800 (about 1,500 USD) on Apple Japan’s online store. Thanks to me not bothering to set up Find My, it’s now a worthless brick. To add insult to injury, I had paid ¥77,619 (500 USD) to have said brick returned to...
Josh Collinsworth
I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind
Why I worry about the effect GitHub Copilot is having and will continue to have on the accessibility...
10 months ago
Why I worry about the effect GitHub Copilot is having and will continue to have on the accessibility of the web at scale.
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 10: Thankful for Family, Missing my Family
As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold.
I wasn't sure what I'd...
over a year ago
As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold.
I wasn't sure what I'd write this week for the RC week 10 recap, since it's a short week.
This week I didn't get a whole lot of coding done, so it's time for the trope:
the Thanksgiving post.
Of course,...
Elad Blog
Hiring Executives & Bad Advice
When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of...
over a year ago
When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of customer demand and experience a Cambrian explosion of internal org complexity simultaneously. Things will initially seem to just truck along as usual, and then suddenly everything at...
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(incomplete) Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024
We have just come off a very intense production period of the first AI Engineer World's Fair, the...
5 months ago
We have just come off a very intense production period of the first AI Engineer World's Fair, the large, multi-track format of the AI Engineer series of conferences that my biz partner Ben and I are building. I am historically bad at writing down lessons and thoughts, so I am...
Joel Gascoigne
Why I don't shield my team from bad news
I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could
actually be quite...
over a year ago
I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could
actually be quite dangerous. It's the idea that as a CEO or executive of a
company, you need to shield your team from bad news, the risks of a startup, and
other negative aspects that are inevitable on
Maggie Appleton
Google Chrome Speedometer
over a year ago
Irrational...
A brief rant on converging compliance regimes.
Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has...
over a year ago
Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has touched on reconciling between product and compliance goals, and over that time I’ve developed something of a pet theory on the evolution of compliance over the next five to ten years:...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Reflecting on YC, 2 years on
Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program....
over a year ago
Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program. Upwards of 7,000 founders have taken part. Yet, no…
Jibran’s Perspective
Project 2: Gift cards to Pakistan
I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to...
a month ago
I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to new opportunities. It’s time to work on one of my own ideas again. This is part of my plan to start failing more.
I’ve decided to build a business sending gift cards to Pakistan -...
Words and Buttons...
Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics?
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat...
over a year ago
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat limited scope, this may be indeed an economical alternative to splines.
The Pragmatic...
Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech
A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups...
a year ago
A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups and large companies. Willem Spruijt shares the good, the bad and the ugly, about both environments.
Irrational...
Those five spare hours each week.
One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology...
11 months ago
One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology Officers should actively write code. There are a lot of strongly held positions, from “Real CTOs code.” at one end of the spectrum, to “Low ego managers know they contribute more by...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware August 2024
Last month’s Ware was a peak programming meter driver board made by JC Broadcast, taken from an...
2 months ago
Last month’s Ware was a peak programming meter driver board made by JC Broadcast, taken from an Audix broadcast console. Thanks again to Howie M for contributing the ware! Howie hypothesized that the four mounting holes would be a dead give-away, in his words: The meters, typical...
bt RSS Feed
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
2021-11-25
As you can most likely tell by looking at...
over a year ago
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
2021-11-25
As you can most likely tell by looking at your browser’s URL - I’ve swapped over to a new domain for my personal website: tdarb.org. I’m a fickle person and this is a random change - but it is one I’ve been planning to do...
Confessions of a...
Invite your friends to read Confessions of a Code Addict
Thank you for reading Confessions of a Code Addict — your support allows me to keep doing this work.
6 months ago
Thank you for reading Confessions of a Code Addict — your support allows me to keep doing this work.
Steve Klabnik
How often does Rust change?
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Building Custom React Hooks
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
We tried that, didn’t work
In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as...
a year ago
In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as much of an obstacle as “we tried that, didn’t work”. The fallacy that past failed attempts dictates the scope of what's possible.
That just because someone, somewhere, one time...
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us in 2023
It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
a year ago
It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
Josh Collinsworth
Social Media, Compulsion, and the 12 Things I Learned on My Break from Facebook
I’m beginning to believe that becoming more connected with everyone is making me less connected with...
over a year ago
I’m beginning to believe that becoming more connected with everyone is making me less connected with anyone.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
I Don’t Like The Term “IC” Either
I really liked Robin’s piece, “Stop calling yourself an IC”.
I still remember the way I felt the...
5 months ago
I really liked Robin’s piece, “Stop calling yourself an IC”.
I still remember the way I felt the first time I heard that term. It was used in a way where its connotations conveyed a kind of laziness via lack of ambition. And I thought, “But wait, I am an individual contributor —...
ntietz.com blog -...
Terminology isn't universal
A little while back, I wrote that we shouldn't say "auth" but should use other terms instead.
I...
3 weeks ago
A little while back, I wrote that we shouldn't say "auth" but should use other terms instead.
I stand by my argument in general, but it also has another side to it: my suggested terminology makes sense in some domains, but not in all domains.
And that's because terminology...
PostHog's RSS Feed
8 annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know
1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is...
a year ago
1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is including users in your experiment who aren't actually…
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Challenge your performance intuition with C++ magic squares
Let's play a game. There will be twelve rounds, each round is a match between two solutions. Or...
over a year ago
Let's play a game. There will be twelve rounds, each round is a match between two solutions. Or rather between their execution times. Using your intuition and best judgment, please estimate their relative performance.
Ralph Ammer
David Hume — Why we change our mind
How do we know which food is best for us? We might start a low-carb diet. Then we switch to whole...
a year ago
How do we know which food is best for us? We might start a low-carb diet. Then we switch to whole grains, or even go fully vegan—only to return to a low-carb diet yet again. We constantly change our minds. Even scientists keep revising their perspectives. Why is it so difficult...
Joel Gascoigne
Focus on the line, not the dot
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Yesterday I...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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Yesterday I noticed the Who’s Hiring?
[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617] thread pop up again on Hacker
News. If you’re hiring, it’s a great place to share that fact. Since around half
a...
elementary Blog
Big Feature Updates for Accessibility, Privacy, Security, and More
As promised, this month brings a bunch of new features including a big new accessibility feature and...
a year ago
As promised, this month brings a bunch of new features including a big new accessibility feature and a major platform improvement. Enjoy this month’s contributions to the upcoming OS 7.1!
AppCenter
As we work towards our continual goal of better supporting alternative app stores,...
Basta’s Notes
I ask three questions
When I'm interviewing for a job, these are the questions I ask
a year ago
When I'm interviewing for a job, these are the questions I ask
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL
Explain Extended New Year's post solving the Rubik's Cube in SQL
The post Happy New Year: solving...
a year ago
Explain Extended New Year's post solving the Rubik's Cube in SQL
The post Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Ruthless Edit
Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album:
[Let’s...
3 months ago
Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album:
[Let’s say] We’ve recorded twenty-five songs. We think the album is going to have ten. Instead of picking our favorite ten, we limit it to: “What are the five or six we can’t live...
Ink & Switch
04 · Diff visualizations
Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by...
10 months ago
Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by section.
Basta’s Notes
Things nobody taught me about money
When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different...
a year ago
When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different education from previous generations. I grew up under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind policies. Classes teaching important life skills like home economics and...
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...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.38.0: Exports, subscriptions and session analysis
PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved feature flag persistence and much more!
The Pragmatic...
Happy Leap Day!
29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how...
9 months ago
29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how few assumptions we should make about dates – and why to use a date library when you can.
Joel on Software
So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of...
over a year ago
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. I’m still going on some customer calls… Read more "So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?"
swyx's site RSS Feed
Svelte for Sites, React for Apps
Why we should stop trying to use the same tool for different jobs.
over a year ago
Why we should stop trying to use the same tool for different jobs.
Posts on Nikita...
Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it.
Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
Words and Buttons...
Simple image vectorization
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out...
over a year ago
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out of it. The algorithm describes shows how bilinear interpolation, polynomial approximation, differential analysis, and iterative algorithms work together to solve a practical...
Writing - Andreas...
Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the
time to write summaries...
a year ago
One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the
time to write summaries for the good ones. The ROI of spending 2h writing a
synopsis is much higher than spending those 2h powering through the next
book on your list. Reading is not about page count or...
A Beautiful Site
An icon converter that supports multiple sizes and transparency
If you're looking for an online utility to convert JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to ICO format, here's...
over a year ago
If you're looking for an online utility to convert JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to ICO format, here's one that does exactly that. It supports full transparency when converting 24-bit PNGs and even lets you combine multiple resolutions into one icon file — perfect for generating...
Steve Klabnik
How to not rely on rubygems.org for development
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 8: Life happens, and databases are hard
I'm two-thirds of the way done with my RC batch now.
Eight weeks down, four weeks to go.
The last...
over a year ago
I'm two-thirds of the way done with my RC batch now.
Eight weeks down, four weeks to go.
The last two weeks have been difficult for me because of life happening.
Week 7 was hard because I had some travel to help my parents, and that just takes me out of my routine and is...
On Test Automation
On ditching hourly and productizing my services
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely...
2 weeks ago
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely these days, for clients both in the Netherlands and abroad. And I like it that way. Don’t get me wrong, I like to drive, but commuting takes up a lot of time, time I would rather...
bunnie's blog
Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White...
a year ago
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White House and the Secretary of Commerce to place restrictions on Americans working with RISC-V (see also the initial request from the Senate) in order to prevent China from gaining...
Liz Denys
Starlit sky coffee pitcher, 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
8 months ago
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s Meaning in the Ordering of the Web’s Tech Stack
I was watching Zach’s presentation at JSHeroes 2023, “The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components”,...
a year ago
I was watching Zach’s presentation at JSHeroes 2023, “The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components”, and a subtle point stuck out to me at the ending of his talk.
When you run into performance problems, it's [because you tried] to reorder these things or combine them in weird...
David Heinemeier...
Software estimates have never worked and never will
Since the dawn of computing, humans have sought to estimate how long it takes to build software, and...
4 months ago
Since the dawn of computing, humans have sought to estimate how long it takes to build software, and for just as long, they've consistently failed. Estimating even medium-sized projects is devilishly difficult, and estimating large projects is virtually impossible. Yet the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators
Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
over a year ago
Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator journey.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Lessons in Competitive Comms from the Plaid-Stripe Kerfuffle
Now that the dust has settled on the Plaid-Stripe thing it's time to recap lessons learned.
over a year ago
Now that the dust has settled on the Plaid-Stripe thing it's time to recap lessons learned.
TokyoDev
Working as a Female Software Developer in Japan
For some people, [working as a software developer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan)...
a year ago
For some people, [working as a software developer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan) would be a dream come true. As an Australian software developer who has been in Japan for 6 months, I’m one of those dreamers.
If you’ve been looking to work in Japan for a while,...
HTMHell
An HTML structure for a tab component
by Marco Bretschneider
Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact...
5 days ago
by Marco Bretschneider
Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact you learnt about ARIA was the first rule “Don't use ARIA, use native HTML instead“ - and so did I.
As someone who has been able to speak native HTML for many years, I always thought...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What's the true role of a product team at an engineering-led organization?
We’ve talked before about product-minded engineers at PostHog. We don’t have PMs dictating a...
over a year ago
We’ve talked before about product-minded engineers at PostHog. We don’t have PMs dictating a roadmap or solutions - it all comes from engineering. A…
A Beautiful Site
Smaller volume increments in macOS
Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can.
You...
over a year ago
Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can.
You already know you can increase and decrease your Mac's volume with the keyboard, but sometimes the intervals are a bit too much. I usually end up adjusting my external speakers just to...
macwright.com
Recently
This was a big month of change for me – I announced
that I was joining Val.town
and wrote a big...
a year ago
This was a big month of change for me – I announced
that I was joining Val.town
and wrote a big update about Placemark.
Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little
breather and just do the usual: what’s new!
Reading
I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The...
over a year ago
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The Sultan's Riddle Once upon a time there was a Sultan who was looking for a vizier to help him rule his country. It became known to him that among the multitudes of his loyal subjects...
Code Of Honor
Credit where credit is due
I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years...
2 months ago
I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
A Smart Bear
Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same...
a year ago
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Lowest Common Denominator: www
Native apps are all about control. Don’t like thing X? You can dive in and, with enough elbow grease...
2 months ago
Native apps are all about control. Don’t like thing X? You can dive in and, with enough elbow grease and persistence, finally get what you want. Write your own C library. Do some assembly code. Even make your own hardware if you have to.
But on the web you give up that control....
David Heinemeier...
Clear the barnacles
The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at...
a year ago
The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at once. These little mental barnacles add up in imperceptible ways until you suddenly feel like you're getting nowhere, no matter how hard you push. You must keep scrubbing your...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Market Yourself
Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market...
over a year ago
Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market Yourself in Public + at Work.
Epic Web Dev
Support Responsive Favicons for a Professional Look (tip)
Create a responsive favicon that adapts to the user's system preference for light or dark mode.
a year ago
Create a responsive favicon that adapts to the user's system preference for light or dark mode.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Can we useRef, but without the .current? Let's try!
Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've...
over a year ago
Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've used it instead of useState to optimize re-renders. But typing ref.current over and over is just annoying. Come on, Vladimir, startX.current is just the same as this.startX in a...
James Vaughan's blog
Writing an HTTP server in Prolog
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
The things we do to ship desktop software
I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in...
over a year ago
I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in under a second.
It might surprise you that I spent more time on things that are not related to core functionality. Let’s call it a tax of shipping desktop software.
Here are some of...
Oxide Computer...
Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of
us being born in a...
over a year ago
We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of
us being born in a garage and
Bryan’s on the soul of our new computer
company. Also, see the perspectives of some of our founding engineers:
Robert Mustacchi on
joining Oxide,
Joshua Clulow on the need...
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 4
In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I...
over a year ago
In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I used to build the TNFS site. In this (much shorter) part, I’d like to take a step back from the hardcore geekery, and wrap up with my thoughts on the whole thing.
Other Sites
But...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we built our onboarding email flow (with actual performance data)
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks...
10 months ago
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks they're annoying and ineffective. The truth, as…
Liz Denys
A simple summer salad of fennel, edamame, and onion
I went most of my life without having fennel. Then one day I had it roasted, the next raw, and I was...
over a year ago
I went most of my life without having fennel. Then one day I had it roasted, the next raw, and I was in love. Surprising, given that I'm not very partial to anise flavoring.
While fennel is very versatile to cook with - you can boil, braise, fry, grill, roast, sauté, or steam it...
Epic Web Dev
Unleash the Designer in You (with Tailwind CSS) (article)
Explore how Tailwind CSS fosters collaboration between developers and designers, enhancing UI design...
5 months ago
Explore how Tailwind CSS fosters collaboration between developers and designers, enhancing UI design skills with utility classes and shared principles.
swyx's site RSS Feed
What to do when iCloud is stuck on uploading items
I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second...
over a year ago
I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second Brain](https://www.swyx.io/obsidian-brain), and twice now I've seen iCloud get corrupted into a really bad state. I also [back up everything to github](https://github.com/sw-yx/brain), so I dont really experience much data...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Traction vs Trust Equation of Cofounder Dating
One of the most common problems in the beginning stage of a founder journey is establishing the...
a year ago
One of the most common problems in the beginning stage of a founder journey is establishing the cofounder group. I thought I would jot down some notes from my own experience + that of friends in similar situations.
TokyoDev
How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in Japan
At [Oedo Ruby Kaigi 04](http://regional.rubykaigi.org/oedo04/), [Leonard...
over a year ago
At [Oedo Ruby Kaigi 04](http://regional.rubykaigi.org/oedo04/), [Leonard Chin](https://twitter.com/lchin) gave a presentation entitled "How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in a Foreign Land". Although the presentation is for a Japanese audience, it is based on his experience...
Steve Klabnik
How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Until the end of the internet
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and...
a year ago
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and crucial products get shut down all the time. You can't even trust that major conglomerates like Google to provide something you can count on two-five-ten years from now. And if you're...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we raised a $15m Series B ahead of schedule
Last week we proudly announced we’d successfully raised $15 million in a Series B funding round,...
over a year ago
Last week we proudly announced we’d successfully raised $15 million in a Series B funding round, with support from Y Combinator Continuity Fund and GV…
TokyoDev
On the Value of Software
One of the biggest challenges in moving from a software developer to entrepreneur has been changing...
over a year ago
One of the biggest challenges in moving from a software developer to entrepreneur has been changing my perception of the value of software. As a developer, the underlying assumption was the more functionality software had, the more valuable it was. This proposition was...
A Smart Bear
Pivot Points
Not "enabling constraints", not "weaknesses", not even "strengths". The concept of a "Pivot Point"...
2 months ago
Not "enabling constraints", not "weaknesses", not even "strengths". The concept of a "Pivot Point" grapples with the same reality, but more constructive and useful.
macwright.com
Hacker News
Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s
the only JavaScript on most pages, which are...
over a year ago
Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s
the only JavaScript on most pages, which are otherwise
pretty minimal.
try {
if (document.referrer) {
const ref = new URL(document.referrer);
if (ref.host === 'news.ycombinator.com') {
window.location.href =...
Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono Font Variant Popularity
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley...
over a year ago
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley Mono Typeface. I am truly humbled by the feedback, interest and people that have keen interest in typography.
Berkeley Mono Font Variants
Quick update on people asking what's the...
Joel Gascoigne
Exercise: a requirement for sleep?
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Recently I have...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Recently I have struggled to get to sleep at night. When I need to be up at 8
and working away on either my own projects or exciting client projects by 9 it
is vital that I wake up refreshed
A Beautiful Site
A better way to write config files in PHP
How many times have you seen something like this in a config file?
$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_name...
over a year ago
How many times have you seen something like this in a config file?
$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_name = 'somedb';
$db_user = 'someuser';
$db_pass = 'somepass';
Then, of course, it gets included and the variables are referenced as globals:
include('config.php');
echo $db_host; //...
Liz Denys
Cancel Like Everything
Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a...
over a year ago
Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a new poster inspired by For Like Ever and the current need for social distance:
The texture in the clouds below the text is made up of no symbols and small x's:
I've made an A4...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Lessons in DDD from building an e-commerce platform
In a recent conversation with some colleagues, we were talking about how startups make the trade-off...
11 months ago
In a recent conversation with some colleagues, we were talking about how startups make the trade-off between design, domain-driven specifically, in favor of speed. They intentionally take on debt, technical and otherwise, to move faster.
I wasn’t in favour of employing DDD in a...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Another Week with Bad Software
In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why —...
over a year ago
In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why — probably because I could. I had a hotel booked via booking.com, but once I arrived there the receptionist told me it was the first time he's heard of my booking, and he told me that...
Acko.net
The Hiker's Dilemma
How to take care of your tribe
The other day I read:
"If you're hiking and you stop to let other...
over a year ago
How to take care of your tribe
The other day I read:
"If you're hiking and you stop to let other people catch up, don't start walking immediately when they arrive. Because that means you got a rest and they didn't. I think about this a lot."
I want to dissect this sentiment...
37signals Dev
Solid Queue 1.0 released
We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version...
2 months ago
We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version has come a long way since we published the first version, 0.1.1, back in December 2023, with 132 merged pull requests and 126 closed issues, and the help of multiple...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on 'Metaphysics and JavaScript'
_[Slides...
over a year ago
_[Slides here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_aeM_UkwS9qaSzHDz87zC9bmtvbuLbPof7RnN96SJKE/edit?usp=sharing)_
On Test Automation
RestAssured .NET in 2024 - a review
As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over...
4 days ago
As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over the changes, bug fixes and new features that have been introduced in RestAssured .NET in 2024. This year, I released 7 new versions of the library, and while none of the versions...
Josh Collinsworth
Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks...
over a year ago
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks good, something people like, is at best tangential to the main point. The question is: does it succeed at meeting the project goals? And you don’t know how to answer that question.
Blog - Bitfield...
Suite smells: undertesting and overtesting
Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests
too optimistic...
2 weeks ago
Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests
too optimistic (assuming the code already works), or too persnickety
(testing the irrelevant)?
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Book Notes: “Out of the Software Crisis” by Baldur Bjarnason
I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some...
a year ago
I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some of my highlighted excerpts and notes.
It’s always hard reading a book like this because I highlight so much and have so many thoughts that I could spend hours and hours rehashing...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Exploring Medley as a Common Lisp development environment
<.*
One of the...
over a year ago
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).*
One of the questions I've been asked several times by readers of this blog are [what are salaries of developers in Japan](/articles/software-developer-salaries-in-japan). There is a fair...
Epic Web Dev
Text and Image Clipping Effects (tip)
11 months ago
Liz Denys
Reasons to kick Peter Thiel off Facebook's board
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about...
over a year ago
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about the threat he poses. Many of the arguments are centered around diversity, which is a tenet Facebook says it deeply values.
The ways Thiel fails to value diversity matter: his...
bt RSS Feed
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
2020-06-14
I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air...
over a year ago
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
2020-06-14
I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air with Linux Mint. It’s a distro I’ve used a few times in the past, but never set it as one of my main daily drivers until now.
Setting up all my go-to applications (Sublime, LocalWP,...
exist
Non-Empty Recursion in Elm
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Go beyond eslint limits with these 3 tricks
My current obsession with statically checking JS code got me to appreciate eslint even more....
over a year ago
My current obsession with statically checking JS code got me to appreciate eslint even more. Recently, I've shown you how to use no-restricted-syntax to lint almost anything. Still, like any tool, eslint has its limits — often a precise rule bends eslint too much, and is not...
A Beautiful Site
Surreal CMS acquires PageLime
Nearly a decade ago, I launched my first SaaS application. It was a new take on content management —...
over a year ago
Nearly a decade ago, I launched my first SaaS application. It was a new take on content management — a hosted CMS that reads/writes directly to a web server and uses class attributes to define content regions.
It was a great idea. Such a great idea that it inspired others to do...
Ralph Ammer
Edmund Husserl — Consciousness
You are awake. You think and you feel. But what is it that is doing all this thinking and feeling?...
6 months ago
You are awake. You think and you feel. But what is it that is doing all this thinking and feeling? We call it “consciousness” and over 100 years ago the philosopher Edmund Husserl made a bold attempt to uncover its secrets. Subjective experience is private The thing is:...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 12: What's Next, and Speedrunning Crafting Interpreters
And that's it.
My batch at RC ended yesterday.
I have so many thoughts and feelings from this time,...
over a year ago
And that's it.
My batch at RC ended yesterday.
I have so many thoughts and feelings from this time, but it's going to take time to coalesce them all.
I'll write up my Return Statement1 in a week or two, but for now, here's what I was up to the last week!
Mostly, this last week...
A Beautiful Site
Animated CSS hamburger icons
If you need some tasty CSS hamburger icons that animate in fantastic ways, here you go.
Hamburgers...
over a year ago
If you need some tasty CSS hamburger icons that animate in fantastic ways, here you go.
Hamburgers is an MIT-licensed CSS library that gives you over a dozen beautifully animated navicons for use in your own projects. Also includes the Sass source so you can customize and compile...
Computer Things
Strings do too many things
No Newsletter next week
TLA+ Workshop and moving places.
Strings do too many things
In the unusual...
10 months ago
No Newsletter next week
TLA+ Workshop and moving places.
Strings do too many things
In the unusual basis types email1 I wrote this about strings:
We use strings for identifiers, human writing, structured data, and grammars. If you instead use symbols for identifiers then you can...
Seán Barry
Understanding TypeScript Generics
TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and...
over a year ago
TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and when to use them.
PostHog's RSS Feed
VC is a tool, not a religion
We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1...
a year ago
We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1 – We started bootstrapping, then changed our minds…
Irrational...
Notes on The Value Flywheel Effect
The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into...
a year ago
The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into real-world application of Wardley mapping, and a rare view of a company’s engineering strategy.
I’m currently diving into the topic of engineering strategy,
and a sub-topic that I’ve not...
Blog System/5
Demystifying secure NFS
My lab notes on the arduous process of setting up NFSv4 with Kerberos across a Synology NAS and...
a month ago
My lab notes on the arduous process of setting up NFSv4 with Kerberos across a Synology NAS and various Linux and FreeBSD clients.
Tony Finch's blog
getentropy() vs RAND_bytes()
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months:
There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024....
2 months ago
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months:
There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024. There’s lots of
good stuff in it, but today I am writing about getentropy()
which is the first officially standardized POSIX API for getting
cryptographically secure random...
Tony Finch's blog
Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch build howto
main img {
border: 1px solid var(--fg);
width: 100%;
}
The Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch is a...
a year ago
main img {
border: 1px solid var(--fg);
width: 100%;
}
The Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch is a working MX-style
mechanical keyboard switch, but 4x larger in every dimension.
I realised at the weekend that the Big Switch should fit nicely in a
simple Lego enclosure. Because an...
A Beautiful Site
A free HTML, CSS, and JavaScript beautifier
Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best...
over a year ago
Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best feature was that it was easy to use and didn't have intrusive advertisements.
I sold DirtyMarkup a couple years ago, and since then the new owners slapped on a header that makes...
Irrational...
Thesis on value accumulation in AI.
Recently, I’ve thinking about where I want to focus my angel investing in 2024,
and decided to...
10 months ago
Recently, I’ve thinking about where I want to focus my angel investing in 2024,
and decided to document my thinking about value accumulation in artificial intelligence
because it explains the shape of my interest–or lack thereof–in investing in artificial
intelligence tooling....
Vadim Kravcenko
How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the problems they […]
The post How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
HTMHell
Get that marquee ✨AeStHeTiC✨
With the current Y2K fashion trend and JLo being back together with Ben Affleck, the 2000s are...
over a year ago
With the current Y2K fashion trend and JLo being back together with Ben Affleck, the 2000s are having a revival this year. Many brands are jumping onto the boat by creating websites with an “old-school” vibe.
SEPRONIC WORLD by Thea Wood on Behance
The marquee element is an old...
Alex Meub
How to Add IPv6 Support to CloudFront and S3 Websites
If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have...
over a year ago
If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have it configured to support IPv6. This means that visitors won’t be able to access your content with IPv6-only enabled which is not good. On top of that, I think its important to...
Making software...
Write HTML Like It's 1999
Write HTML Like It's 1999
2019-06-06
I am sure it's safe to say that most developers love to use the...
over a year ago
Write HTML Like It's 1999
2019-06-06
I am sure it's safe to say that most developers love to use the latest and greatest web tools available. Helpful resources such as preprocessors, template engines, syntax formatters - you name it - can all make a developer's life easier....
bt RSS Feed
CSS: Indenting Text
CSS: Indenting Text
2019-04-05
A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
over a year ago
CSS: Indenting Text
2019-04-05
A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn’t an insult - I’m happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and...
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
over a year ago
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
HTMHell
Forced Colors Mode Futility
by Matthias Zöchling
figure{margin-bottom:2.4rem}figure img{aspect-ratio:4;border: 6px solid...
2 weeks ago
by Matthias Zöchling
figure{margin-bottom:2.4rem}figure img{aspect-ratio:4;border: 6px solid #000}figcaption,sup,.highlight,section:has(#resources) span,section:has(#fns)...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Ejectable Defaults
Borrowing heavily from Gatsby Themes to improve the Sapper developer experience, and a discussion of...
over a year ago
Borrowing heavily from Gatsby Themes to improve the Sapper developer experience, and a discussion of how Ejectable Defaults fits with the Zero Config movement
A Beautiful Site
The SimpleImage library for PHP
If you love working with PHP but hate the GD library, you'll love the Simple Image PHP class I'm...
over a year ago
If you love working with PHP but hate the GD library, you'll love the Simple Image PHP class I'm releasing today. This class takes the headache out of dealing with images and features over 25 useful methods.
The class is incredibly simple to use. The following two lines will...
David Gerrells
too many birthdays
I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive...
over a year ago
I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive family. Does this make me a bad uncle?
Don Melton
Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous...
over a year ago
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous post:
On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The ChatGPT vs Bear Blog spam war
Ever since Bear Blog's infancy, spam has been an issue. Free services tend to attract those seeking...
a year ago
Ever since Bear Blog's infancy, spam has been an issue. Free services tend to attract those seeking to exploit them for backlinks and the alleged SEO benefits (although this is debatable given updates to the Google algorithm). I've previously discussed this in a post, detailing...
Vadim Kravcenko
Exit. Selling your SaaS
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post Exit. Selling your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Blog System/5
SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right
The SSH agent is a little daemon that holds your private keys in memory. This is particularly handy...
a year ago
The SSH agent is a little daemon that holds your private keys in memory. This is particularly handy when your keys are protected by a passphrase: you can unlock and add your keys to the agent once and, from then on, any SSH client such as ssh(1) can interact with the keys without...
Ink & Switch
Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates
Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects...
2 months ago
Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects advancing the future of Automerge.
ntietz.com blog
The origin and virtues of semicolons in programming languages
While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices...
8 months ago
While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices for statement terminators.
. is very appealing, or !.
Ultimately, I might make the "boring" choice of using either ; or significant whitespace.
But that had me asking: why is it...
Blog System/5
Windows NT: Peeking into the cradle
A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
a year ago
A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
Alex Meub
Set Up Remote Desktop in Windows
Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows:
1. Allow Remote Connections
Right...
over a year ago
Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows:
1. Allow Remote Connections
Right click on the My Computer icon > Click Properties > Click on the Remote tab
Check the box that says “Allow Users to Connect Remotely to this Computer”
Add your username to the list of...
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental...
over a year ago
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations.
HTMHell
Grouping form fields
by Matthias Kittsteiner
When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about...
yesterday
by Matthias Kittsteiner
When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about HTML and especially not about accessibility. Everything I noticed was the special way a legend is displayed inside a fieldset – or rather: alongside the border of a fieldset.
Fast...
A Smart Bear
The unfortunate math behind consulting companies
Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely...
a year ago
Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely works out. Here are some tips for consulting companies.
Blog - Bitfield...
Rust vs Go in 2024
Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for
your next project, and...
11 months ago
Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for
your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like
performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency?
Jake Zimmerman
Why don’t constructors have override checking?
11 months ago
The Changelog
Photographic comparison: Is the Kobo Libra Colour display worse than the Kobo Libra 2?
I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a...
7 months ago
I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a few years, and was looking forward to the Kobo Libra Colour — the first color E Ink display in a mainstream ereader line. I found the display to be a mixed bag; contrast seemed …...
Paolo Amoroso's...
System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint: first impressions
<![CDATA[I'm writing this on my new desktop computer.
It's a Linux system I chose after deciding to...
5 months ago
<![CDATA[I'm writing this on my new desktop computer.
It's a Linux system I chose after deciding to migrate from ChromeOS back to Linux: a System76 Merkaat short case mini PC with a 5 GHz 13th gen Intel Core i7 processor, Intel Iris Xe graphics, 32 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, 2.5 G...
A small freedom area...
GCC undefined behaviors are getting wild
Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions
after weeks of struggle, I...
over a year ago
Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions
after weeks of struggle, I was minding my own business having fun writing
integer arithmetic code. Life was good, when suddenly… zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped).
That code wasn't messing with memory much...
Joel Gascoigne
The choices we make when we build startups
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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We’ve recently...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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We’ve recently reached the point with Buffer where I’ve started to think about a
lot of key higher level choices. As a CEO these can be difficult decisions to
make. I’ve been taking time to...
The Changelog
Joyful is the Dark
“Joyful is the dark coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder of the morning. Never was that...
over a year ago
“Joyful is the dark coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder of the morning. Never was that midnight touched by dread and gloom; darkness was the cradle of the dawning.” – Brian Wren Most of us are not personally experiencing symptoms of a pandemic virus, but with all...
blag
Git/Github fork-pull request-update cycle
When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having...
over a year ago
When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having multiple merge commits and issues with keeping the forked repo in sync. This post addresses solutions for some of the problems.
Julia Evans
Some tactics for writing in public
Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on
the internet are such...
a year ago
Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on
the internet are such assholes!”
I’ve often heard the advice “don’t read the comments”, but actually I’ve
learned a huge amount from reading internet comments on my posts from strangers
over the years,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April
I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit...
a year ago
I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit today. I am now taking Latent Space (the new name enabled by the previous owner of that domain selling it to me in my first P2P domain purchase) a lot more seriously with the support...
ntietz.com blog
Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests
I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage.
We used tools like a...
10 months ago
I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage.
We used tools like a code coverage ratchet to ensure that the test coverage always went up and never down.
This had a few effects.
One of them was the intended effect: we wrote more tests.
Another was...
Irrational...
Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical...
a year ago
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Cancer and revenue - the latest board meeting
It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with ...
over a year ago
It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with retinoblastoma - a fairly rare form of cancer that…
Tony Finch's blog
What does it mean to be an RCU implementation?
The other day, Paul McKenney posted an article on LiveJournal about
different flavours of RCU,...
a year ago
The other day, Paul McKenney posted an article on LiveJournal about
different flavours of RCU, prompted by a question about couple of
Rust RCU crates. (There are a few comments about it on LWN.)
McKenney goes on to propose an RCU classification system based on the
API an...
charity.wtf
How to Throw A Company Offsite In A “Post-COVID” World
Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since...
a year ago
Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since February of 2020, before the plague. It was wonderful and glorious and silly and energizing and so, so SO much fun. It was a potent reminder of the reality that no virtual...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.16.0
Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And,...
over a year ago
Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And, given that scalability was the focus of the previous…
A Beautiful Site
Icon Finder: an awesome search engine for icons
I came across a really awesome icon resource awhile back, but never got a chance to write anything...
over a year ago
I came across a really awesome icon resource awhile back, but never got a chance to write anything about it. If you're a web designer or developer who always has use for quality icons — especially ones with GPL or similar licenses — this is the website for you. It's essentially a...
Copper • A blog...
The complex simplicity of my static websites
It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
a year ago
It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions.
I had no idea what that...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: More on authentication and password managers
Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password...
over a year ago
Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password managers:
Using a password manager effectively
In a deeper exploration of password manager browser extensions and features for sharing as well as a survey of alternatives to password...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Build Great Software By Repeatedly Encountering It
Robin in “Vibe driven development” (which I took notes):
the only way to build a great product is to...
a year ago
Robin in “Vibe driven development” (which I took notes):
the only way to build a great product is to use it every day, to stare at it, to hold it in your hands to feel its lumps. The data and customers will lie to you but the product never will.
Oof. That lands with me.
As a...
HTMHell
HTML: The Bad Parts
by Mayank
You've probably heard statements along the lines of "HTML is already accessible by...
a year ago
by Mayank
You've probably heard statements along the lines of "HTML is already accessible by default" or "You don't need to reinvent this perfectly fine HTML control". I consider these to be more of general claims rather than universal truths. It's extremely important for web...
Steve Klabnik
"C is how the computer works" is a dangerous mindset for C programmers
over a year ago
blag
Learning C
Some resources for learning C
9 months ago
Some resources for learning C
Epic Web Dev
React Server Components: The Future of UI (article)
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once...
5 months ago
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once we nail the abstractions...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 1: Introduction
5 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Found-Money Startups
'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of...
over a year ago
'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of Found-Money Startups and a short list I've been keeping.
swyx's site RSS Feed
10 Principles I Learned from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain
10 Principles I Learned
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Your startup is not a platform
over a year ago
A small freedom area...
Improving color quantization heuristics
In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was
improved in FFmpeg in order...
a year ago
In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was
improved in FFmpeg in order to make nice animated GIF files. For some
reason, to this day this is one of my most popular article.
As time passed, my experience with colors grew and I ended up being...
Paolo Amoroso's...
A demo notefile for WebCard
<![CDATA[To complete WebCard for my RetroChallenge 2024 project I created a demo notefile, a file...
a month ago
<![CDATA[To complete WebCard for my RetroChallenge 2024 project I created a demo notefile, a file that stores the data of a NoteCards hypertext.
The notefile WCDEMO.NOTEFILE contains exmples of Web cards filed into various types of containers and cards such as fileboxes and Text...
bt RSS Feed
Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS
Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS
2020-05-13
Lately, I’ve become obsessed with trying to see...
over a year ago
Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS
2020-05-13
Lately, I’ve become obsessed with trying to see what I can create using only HTML and CSS (besides websites of course). Since playing with the concept of faking 3D elements, I wanted to circle back around to an older CodePen I...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Do what's right
Doing what’s right is so interesting.
It’s so difficult
It’s difficult to be completely honest with...
11 months ago
Doing what’s right is so interesting.
It’s so difficult
It’s difficult to be completely honest with yourself when you know what’s right but you don’t want to do it.
It’s often physically more difficult: you’ll have to spend more effort, more time, more money.
But it’s so...
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 12, 2016: women's financial planning
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. Today's ride home from choir practice:
Former Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck launched Ellevest yesterday. Ellevest differs from other investment platforms...
Elad Blog
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
a year ago
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
over a year ago
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
Making software...
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
2023-11-02
The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of...
a year ago
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
2023-11-02
The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
Ink & Switch
07 · AI bots in version control
Co-creating with AI can use version control to make bot-suggested changes easier to see and manage.
9 months ago
Co-creating with AI can use version control to make bot-suggested changes easier to see and manage.
Stephen Wolfram...
Games and Puzzles as Multicomputational Systems
over a year ago
The Changelog
Facebook’s Blocking Decisions Are Deliberate – Including Their Censorship of Mastodon
In the aftermath of my report of Facebook censoring mentions of the open-source social network...
over a year ago
In the aftermath of my report of Facebook censoring mentions of the open-source social network Mastodon, there was a lot of conversation about whether or not this was deliberate. That conversation seemed to focus on whether a human speficially added joinmastodon.org to some sort...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to measure product engagement
Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for...
over a year ago
Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for your business. Though it seems easy to view success…
Paolo Amoroso's...
Documenting WebCard
<![CDATA[With the last feature of WebCard behind me I proceeded with the next task to wrap up my...
a month ago
<![CDATA[With the last feature of WebCard behind me I proceeded with the next task to wrap up my RetroChallenge 2024 project: documenting the system.
Since WebCard enhances NoteCards with only a few simple but significant features a full manual would be overkill. So I added to...
Words and Buttons...
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you...
over a year ago
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Spark: live reloading for Rails applications
Today, we are releasing Hotwire Spark, a live-reloading system for Rails Applications.
Reloading the...
4 days ago
Today, we are releasing Hotwire Spark, a live-reloading system for Rails Applications.
Reloading the browser automatically on source changes is a problem that has been well-solved for a long time. Here, we wanted to put an accent on smoothness. If the reload operation is very...
macwright.com
Obsidian Freeform
Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube.
Obsidian...
6 months ago
Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube.
Obsidian Freeform is an extremely
small Obsidian plugin that enables totally custom
JavaScript-powered frames alongside your notes. I created it because I use
Obsidian as my note-taking...
HTMHell
aria-labelledby = self
by Weston Thayer
An accessible name is how UI components are identified to assistive tech. Having a...
2 weeks ago
by Weston Thayer
An accessible name is how UI components are identified to assistive tech. Having a good accessible name is important. If not, negative effects may include screen reader users missing out on vital information, voice control users struggling to interact, and any...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf().
The...
over a year ago
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf().
The problem with this approach is lack of selectivity: imagine you have 100 tests and only 1 test fails. For debugging the issue you only need to see logs when executing that 1 test...
Alex MacCaw
Predictions of the future
A new year and a new decade: What does the future have in store for us? Information revolutions,...
over a year ago
A new year and a new decade: What does the future have in store for us? Information revolutions, medical advances, AI? How will humanity tackle its largest problems? I guess we shall just have to wait and see (or get busy inventing it!).
I've jotted down some of
Joel Gascoigne
50 books that transformed my business and my life
As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books
completely. I even remember...
over a year ago
As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books
completely. I even remember a time where I couldn't imagine reading books at
all. After I graduated and started to be interested in business and startups, I
realized the immense power and knowledge contained...
Making software...
Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software
Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software
2022-05-30
I firmly believe that proprietary software...
over a year ago
Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software
2022-05-30
I firmly believe that proprietary software has no business in any school environment. Educational institutions lean heavily on Windows systems in the name of "security" or "easier platform management". This approach forces...
Words and Buttons...
SymPy makes math fun again
It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast,...
over a year ago
It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast, accurate, and without angst. In other words, it is everything I'm not.
bt RSS Feed
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
2020-09-16
I recently came across the...
over a year ago
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
2020-09-16
I recently came across the incredibly cool design for an “ultimate Raspberry Pi computer” by NODE and was inspired to create my own “portable” Pi device. Although, with my concept, I decided to set a few restrictions...
blag
Galloping Search
I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used...
2 weeks ago
I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used to search sorted items when the upper bound is unknown. In this short post, I will share my notes and other alternatives I discovered for searching over unbounded items
David Gerrells
journey before destination
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the...
over a year ago
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the accolades in the future.
Seán Barry
Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript
The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific...
over a year ago
The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific pattern, but I use it in almost every single project.
Tony Finch's blog
Migrating to BIND9 dnssec-policy
Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old
auto-dnssec to its new...
7 months ago
Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old
auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy.
I have been procrastinating this migration for years, and I avoided
learning anything much about dnssec-policy until this month. I’m
writing this from the perspective of a DNS...
TokyoDev
The Downside of Thanking Security Contributors
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've...
over a year ago
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've occasionally gotten reports about security issues, and although we're a two-person company, we still take security seriously, so we decided to create security and responsible disclosure...
Tinloof - Blog
Yeah hooks are good, but have you tried faster React Components?
This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on...
over a year ago
This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on performance issues but rather on getting comfortable and productive with it.
The performance of a React application can be defined by how long the user should wait before seeing the UI...
Vadim Kravcenko
🎭 Owning up to your mistakes
Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob...
over a year ago
Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob mentioned that I […]
The post 🎭 Owning up to your mistakes appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
David Heinemeier...
Where at least I know I'm free
I used to find the American self-image of being this uniquely freedom-loving, freedom-having people...
4 months ago
I used to find the American self-image of being this uniquely freedom-loving, freedom-having people delusional. Sure, I'd think, you're not North Korea or Venezuela, but is that really a standard worth celebration? Shouldn't America compare itself to higher alternatives, like...
Elad Blog
Transcript & Video: Fireside w/ Dylan Field
Figma, AI, Design, & Education
a year ago
Figma, AI, Design, & Education
Paolo Amoroso's...
Raspberry Pi 400: first impressions
<![CDATA[I bought a lovely little computer, a Raspberry Pi 400, and two accessories, a 64 GB Samsung...
a year ago
<![CDATA[I bought a lovely little computer, a Raspberry Pi 400, and two accessories, a 64 GB Samsung Pro Endurance microSD card to hold the file system and a very cheap Full HD webcam for video calls.
Raspberry Pi 400, Samsung Pro Endurance 64 GB microSD card, and Full HD webcam...
Joel Gascoigne
5 varieties of remote working in companies
I've recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team, and the
nature of a company...
over a year ago
I've recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team, and the
nature of a company where the team works from remote locations to accomplish our
work.
Scaling remote working has been a challenge as the team has grown. Remote
companies are still relatively rare,...
Seldo.com
Biographies of every US president as audiobooks
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
All the cool things we built at our Rome hackathon
As an all-remote team, we know how important getting together in person is (we’ve written about...
over a year ago
As an all-remote team, we know how important getting together in person is (we’ve written about this before ). Our product analytics team (plus…
The Pragmatic...
Is the strategy of joining late-stage startups for the financial upside, a dead end?
The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO...
over a year ago
The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO company issuing generous equity, then wait for the IPO. This strategy seems to be less profitable in 2022.
Tinker, Tamper,...
KY-040 Rotary Encoder with Linux on the Raspberry Pi
For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a...
over a year ago
For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a numerical value. So I bought some rotary encoders off Amazon.If you search the Internet for information/tutorials on how to use a “KY-040” rotary encoder with Linux and the Raspberry...
Making software...
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2022-01-06
FOSS Enthusiasts: This article...
over a year ago
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2022-01-06
FOSS Enthusiasts: This article discusses the use of proprietary software and places it in a positive light. You have been warned. No angry emails please...
Google has created one of the best operating systems...
Lennart Koopmann
43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief
In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips,...
a year ago
In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips, I finally embarked on a journey of my own. I took the Amtrak Southwest Chief train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Continue reading to learn more about it and why I'll do it again on...
The Changelog
Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN
Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a...
a year ago
Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a corporate or home network from a remote location, and access services as if you were there. But these days, the notion of “corporate network” and “home network” are less based around...
Words and Buttons...
Image darning
It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of...
over a year ago
It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of how it works.
Irrational...
Notes on Tidy First?
Tidy First? by Kent Beck captures the spirit of Ousterhout’s A Philosophy of Software Design while...
a year ago
Tidy First? by Kent Beck captures the spirit of Ousterhout’s A Philosophy of Software Design while also recognizing the inherent tensions of developing software within a team and business. You can also read it in about two hours. Recommended!
A Philosophy of Software Design by...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Learn In Public
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
over a year ago
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
Max Countryman
Publish Your Drafts
When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating...
a year ago
When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating at times to share unfinished work because it hasn't reached a level of polish that satisfies me. But the truth is, our unpublished work has no value to anyone.
Stephen Wolfram...
Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics
This is part 1 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
a year ago
This is part 1 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics...
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...
Liz Denys
My favorite secret to baking healthier: white whole wheat flour
Replacing white bread with wheat bread has been becoming more and more popular recently, and people...
over a year ago
Replacing white bread with wheat bread has been becoming more and more popular recently, and people seem to be wondering how to generally add more whole grains to their diets. This doesn't come as much of a surprise: whole grains haven't had their bran and germ removed through...
ntietz.com blog
Making it fast shouldn't be the last step
There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make...
a year ago
There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make it fast."1
This is a catchy aphorism, and it is often taken as a rule.
But in its short form, it misses some crucial nuance.
Let's unpack it to see what's missing, then how to do...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break
Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS...
7 months ago
Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn.
His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS.
His post actually...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Many Jobs of JS Build Tools
A discussion of why JS developers use build tools like Webpack and what we do with them, for new JS...
over a year ago
A discussion of why JS developers use build tools like Webpack and what we do with them, for new JS developers.
Renegade Otter
Getting our focus back
“We was robbed…”
Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
a year ago
“We was robbed…”
Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to
improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the
nine unmonetized glances.
An...
The Pragmatic...
A senior engineer/EM job search story
avidson Fellipe, a software engineer with 15 years’ experience, based in New York, was recently let...
a year ago
avidson Fellipe, a software engineer with 15 years’ experience, based in New York, was recently let go. After 350 applications and 85 first-round interviews in 4 months, he secured 3 offers, and has now started his new job. He shares first-hand learnings about navigating the jobs...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
A good first word for Wordle
Ok, I gave in to the fad and took up Wordle. For those who have been living under a rock for the...
over a year ago
Ok, I gave in to the fad and took up Wordle. For those who have been living under a rock for the past few weeks, Wordle is a relatively new online word game which has become viral. It is a variation of Bulls and Cows. You have six tries to guess a five-letter word. Each […]
The...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Surprisingly High Table Stakes of Modern Blogs
Bottom Line Up Front: You are probably underestimating how much goes into blogging technology these...
over a year ago
Bottom Line Up Front: You are probably underestimating how much goes into blogging technology these days.
Joel Gascoigne
The exercise habit
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This morning, my...
over a year ago
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This morning, my alarm sounded at precisely 5:50am. Within a few minutes, I was
up and had my running shoes, shorts and a t-shirt on. Minutes later at 6am, I
opened my MacBook Air, switched to the...
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7 best session replay tools for mobile apps (iOS & Android)
1. LogRocket Typical users: Product managers, engineers, support teams What is LogRocket? LogRocket...
4 months ago
1. LogRocket Typical users: Product managers, engineers, support teams What is LogRocket? LogRocket is a product experience platform that focuses on…
bt RSS Feed
"This Key is Useless Now. Discard?"
“This Key is Useless Now. Discard?”
2024-08-28
The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic...
3 months ago
“This Key is Useless Now. Discard?”
2024-08-28
The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic memories for old school Resident Evil veterans like myself. My personal favourite in the series (not that anyone asked) was the original, 1998 version of Resident Evil 2 (RE2). I...
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Jan 2020 Recap
a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
over a year ago
a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
bt RSS Feed
Blogging for 7 Years
Blogging for 7 Years
2023-06-24
My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven...
a year ago
Blogging for 7 Years
2023-06-24
My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven years ago.
In that time, quite a lot has changed in my life both personally and professionally. So, I figured it would be interesting to reflect on these years and document it for...
ntietz.com blog
A systems design perspective on why chess.com's servers have been melting
January 2023 was a rough month if you wanted to play chess on the most popular chess website,...
a year ago
January 2023 was a rough month if you wanted to play chess on the most popular chess website, chess.com1.
Their service has been experiencing an unprecedented amount downtime because of a huge influx of users2.
There have been days where it's all but unusable.
It's frustrating as...
Kagi Blog
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).
a year ago
This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Navigations on the Web
When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of...
a month ago
When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of thumb is: links are for navigation, buttons are not.
That can take you pretty far. However, like most things, there’s nuance and that mental model can fall apart under certain...
The Changelog
Fast, Ordered Unixy Queues over NNCP and Syncthing with Filespooler
It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces...
over a year ago
It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces ordered execution of jobs that may arrive out of order. After writing this for the nth time in bash, I decided it was time to do it properly. But first, a word on the why of it all....
David Heinemeier...
There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last...
a year ago
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last year. The market as a whole is up, and if you're in the whole market, you're benefitting. But all of that upside, basically, belongs to just a handful of mega tech companies.
This...
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What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to?
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over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: on the side
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A short while ago I wrote about one of the ways I think people could bootstrap a
startup from zero funds. I called it "working in waves"
[https://joel.is/post/2106915988/bootstrapping-waves]. Of...
Julia Evans
A list of programming playgrounds
I really like using (and making!) programming playgrounds, and I got thinking
the other day about...
a year ago
I really like using (and making!) programming playgrounds, and I got thinking
the other day about how I didn’t have a great list of playgrounds to refer to. So I
asked on Mastodon
for links to cool playgrounds.
Here’s what I came up with. I’d love to know what I...
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Array 1.35.0: Introducing SAML, world map view and new plugins
PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are coming from with the World Map. Additionally we now support organization-level SAML login on both Cloud and Self-Hosted instances. Plus check out your Project Homepage for a few...
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In-depth: PostHog vs Pendo
Want to understand the difference between Pendo and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Pendo enables...
a year ago
Want to understand the difference between Pendo and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Pendo enables users to add in tool-tips and in-app messages. It…
Tony Finch's blog
I made a keyboard!
Another keyboard!
HHKbeeb
A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup
to...
a year ago
Another keyboard!
HHKbeeb
A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup
to the beeb’s 40th anniversary. I called it HHKBeeb:
The HHKBeeb is made from:
keycaps designed by me and printed by WASD
Yiancar HS60 PCB
generic HHKB aluminium / acrylic sandwich...
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2023
I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021).
I’m pleased with...
11 months ago
I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021).
I’m pleased with that number, although overall I found it a slightly disappointing year for reading.
Although I read more books, there were less that I really loved – less of the sort of book that...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Inbox Full O’ Receipts
Dave parodying those pesky “Dear business owner” emails one tends to get:
I clearly have no ethics,...
10 months ago
Dave parodying those pesky “Dear business owner” emails one tends to get:
I clearly have no ethics, but you should enter a business relationship with me, a guy who found your email on the internet.
That’s the subtext of those emails.
You are now signed up for a no-opt-out email...
A Beautiful Site
Getting localized month and day names in the browser
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip —...
over a year ago
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app.
I've...
Tinloof - Blog
How to design an accessible carousel
In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally...
8 months ago
In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally accessible carousel for any web project.
Outcome
Carousels in UI are practical interactive elements that efficiently display images or content pieces without taking up too much vertical...
Steve Klabnik
Run Rails with custom patches
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Are any of your features the steak on the menu?
At my first job, we were a distributed team and would get together often.
When we went out to eat,...
11 months ago
At my first job, we were a distributed team and would get together often.
When we went out to eat, one of my coworkers would always order the steak if it was anywhere on the menu.
Every single time we went to some Ohio restaurant that had truly lackluster steak, he'd order it...
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You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox
If you fit one of these criteria:
11 months ago
If you fit one of these criteria:
Oxide Computer...
Exploiting Undocumented Hardware Blocks in the LPC55S69
At Oxide Computer, we are designing a new computer system from the ground up. Along the way we...
over a year ago
At Oxide Computer, we are designing a new computer system from the ground up. Along the way we carefully review all hardware selected to ensure it meets not only functional needs but our security needs as well. This work includes reverse engineering where necessary to get a full...
A Smart Bear
Pricing determines your business model
Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured...
over a year ago
Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured out later," because determines your business model today.
the singularity is...
…and now we see what is possible
Every 70 years America goes through a revolutionary transition. Washington, Lincoln, FDR, now?
The...
a month ago
Every 70 years America goes through a revolutionary transition. Washington, Lincoln, FDR, now?
The Republicans now control the Presidency, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. Is that everything? Does government power lie there, like we are told, or is it all secretly...
TokyoDev
Web Accessibility in Japan: What Developers Need to Know
Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways...
a year ago
Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways different from most people. People who are blind, for example, use screen readers to convert website content into audio. Some use braille displays. There are also people who use...
Epic Web Dev
How the Epic Stack Makes You Faster
Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.
a year ago
Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.
A Beautiful Site
Import/restore MySQL files from the command line
I don't use this very often, but when I do I always spend a decent amount of time trying to figure...
over a year ago
I don't use this very often, but when I do I always spend a decent amount of time trying to figure it out online. Here are the steps to import a large SQL file from the command line.
Upload the SQL file to the server that your MySQL database is on
Execute the following command...
A Smart Bear
The "errors" that mean you're doing it right
Some things appear to be mistakes, but in fact should be celebrated as the expected outcomes of...
11 months ago
Some things appear to be mistakes, but in fact should be celebrated as the expected outcomes of great decisions.
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
On being a great gift-giver
I received a great gift that I love
2 months ago
I received a great gift that I love
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Custom Elements, At Minimum, Only Need End With a Hyphen
Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid...
6 months ago
Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid custom element tag.
The spec says you can have custom elements with emojis in them. For example:
<emotion-😍></emotion-😍>
But for some reason the Codepen where I tested this wasn’t...
A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI-generated Code
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on...
over a year ago
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on AI-generated code.
As an open source maintainer, I respectfully ask that you refrain from using AI-generated code when contributing to this project. This includes code generated by tools...
Vadim Kravcenko
💀 Every app has its skeletons
You need to accept one truth – every shop is messy and every app has its skeletons. Period.💀 🦄 You...
over a year ago
You need to accept one truth – every shop is messy and every app has its skeletons. Period.💀 🦄 You […]
The post 💀 Every app has its skeletons appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Smart Bear
Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual
Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How...
over a year ago
Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How can we leverage the wisdom of the crowd, while ensuring that decisions and responsibilities continue to reside with an individual?
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days
Building wc in the browser
From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to...
a year ago
Building wc in the browser
From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to see how much code I wrote.
For those not in the know: wc -l shows number of lines in files.
Actually, what I have to do is more like find -name "*.go" | xargs wc -l because wc isn’t...
Vadim Kravcenko
🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset
There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and...
over a year ago
There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and the […]
The post 🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Vadim Kravcenko
How to get programming experience when you can’t find a job?
Hello Torb, So I’ve seen this question pop out several times, and I understand the frustration of...
10 months ago
Hello Torb, So I’ve seen this question pop out several times, and I understand the frustration of not being considered […]
The post How to get programming experience when you can’t find a job? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, May 2023
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I...
a year ago
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I suspect this one may be guessed quite quickly, but I’ll leave one hint anyways: there is more than one board in this assembly.
Maggie Appleton
A Short History of Bi-Directional Links
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Moved Off Dev.to
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
over a year ago
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
TokyoDev
TokyoDev has a new logo!
Over the last four years, I’ve been helping TokyoDev with UX, design, and frontend development. One...
11 months ago
Over the last four years, I’ve been helping TokyoDev with UX, design, and frontend development. One project I’ve been working on is improving our branding. Today, I’m delighted to introduce the results of it: TokyoDev’s new logo.
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