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Engineer’s Codex
How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
2nd Oct 2023
charity.wtf
On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been...
8th Jun 2025
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8th Jun 2025
A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next three months. This is true. However, I did leave myself some wiggle room in my...
Code Of Honor
Tough times on the road to Starcraft I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me...
7th Sep 2012
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7th Sep 2012
I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts about writing more reliable...
Maggie Appleton
Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
8th Feb 2020
Buttondown's blog
Add metadata to your RSS feeds Add metadata to your RSS feeds
1st Mar 2025
Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
4th Feb 2024
Max Schmitt
Next.js: How to Get and Set Cookies (2023) Read the post here.
11th Jul 2023
macwright.com
Recently This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big...
1st Feb 2023
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1st Feb 2023
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...
Basta’s Notes
Doing versus Delegating A staff+ skill
6th Aug 2025
charity.wtf
Every Achievement Has A Denominator One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure...
3rd Oct 2022
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3rd Oct 2022
One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure their own status, rank or value by the number of teams and people “under” them. Everyone knows you aren’t supposed to do this, but most of us secretly, sheepishly do it anyway to some...
Founder's blog
Will AI destroy B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
7th Dec 2024
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7th Dec 2024
TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever. The discovery problem. ...
Eric Bailey
I’ll Make an Exception Just for You: Using the Exception Comment to Help Maintain Mature,...
30th Oct 2015
Basta’s Notes
No hassle detected! The importance of tools
9th Aug 2024
Tony Finch's blog
Constructing a four-point egg For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating elliptical and ovoid shapes. The...
29th Jan 2024
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29th Jan 2024
For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating elliptical and ovoid shapes. The Wikipedia article for Moss’s egg has a link to a tutorial on Euclidean Eggs by Freyja Hreinsdóttir which (amongst other things) describes how to construct the “four point egg”. I...
Jibran’s Perspective
Cookie Based Auth for Django and NextJS If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the...
2nd Mar 2024
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2nd Mar 2024
If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the code here. I’m currently working on my first project after deciding that I needed to fail more and practice finishing projects instead of abandoning them midway once they got...
charity.wtf
DevOps vs SRE: delayed coverage of the dumbest war Last week was the West Coast Velocity conference.  I had a terrific time — I think it’s the best...
30th Jun 2016
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30th Jun 2016
Last week was the West Coast Velocity conference.  I had a terrific time — I think it’s the best Velocity I’ve been to yet.  I also slipped in quite late, the evening before last, to catch Gareth’s session on DevOps vs SRE. I had to catch it, because Gareth Rushgrove (of DevOps...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Array 1.38.0: Exports, subscriptions and session analysis PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved...
1st Aug 2022
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1st Aug 2022
PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved feature flag persistence and much more!
Boot.dev Blog
Top 10 Books on Web Development in 2023 If you’re looking for good web development books, you’re probably interested in becoming a web...
5th Sep 2023
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5th Sep 2023
If you’re looking for good web development books, you’re probably interested in becoming a web developer. Makes sense – great pay, solid job security, and interesting work. But beyond that broad goal, you might be looking for some web development reading to satisfy other goals.
Miguel Carranza
Working with Miguel: A Practical Guide Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document...
2nd Feb 2024
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2nd Feb 2024
Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document became crystal clear to me. I am sharing mine externally to inspire other founders and leaders to reflect and write down their own working styles. These documents are incredibly...
Remains of the Day
TikTok and the Sorting Hat I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people...
4th Aug 2020
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4th Aug 2020
I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people with other dominant worldviews, though I am not a strict adherent. It’s more that in many situations when people ascribe causal power to something other than culture, I’m...
alexwlchan
I don’t want to repeat repeat myself Yesterday at work, a customer spotted a typo in our UI: “you can use the use the Tailscale...
3rd Jul 2026
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3rd Jul 2026
Yesterday at work, a customer spotted a typo in our UI: “you can use the use the Tailscale CLI”. After the typo was fixed, I wanted to find other cases of accidentally repeated words or phrases. I used two regular expressions to search every codebase for unnecessary...
Sebastian Witowski
Upgrade Your Python Version Here is an idea for a completely free[1] speed improvement for your code - upgrade your Python...
14th Nov 2022
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14th Nov 2022
Here is an idea for a completely free[1] speed improvement for your code - upgrade your Python version! I started this series of articles using Python 3.8, but today we already have version 3.11. Python 3.11 is the first version of Python that brings pretty significant speed...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI Is Like a Lossy JPEG That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense...
4th Mar 2024
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4th Mar 2024
That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense when I read it. But Paul Ford, writing in the Aboard Newsletter, helped it make even more sense in my brain. [AI tools] compress lots and lots of information—text, image, more—in...
Greg Brockman
My path to OpenAI I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing...
3rd May 2016
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3rd May 2016
I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and was inspired by the notion of writing code that could understand something that I, as the code’s author, did not. I started writing a chatbot — how...
Boot.dev Blog
(Very) Basic Intro to Hash Functions (SHA-256, MD5, etc) Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and...
1st Jan 2020
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1st Jan 2020
Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and retrieve data, among other useful computational tasks. As a practical example, all user passwords on boot.dev are hashed using Bcrypt to ensure that if an attacker were ever to gain...
Greg Brockman
The OpenAI Mission This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on...
11th Mar 2019
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11th Mar 2019
This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on OpenAI for the past three years. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which we define as automated systems that outperform humans at most...
Josh Comeau's blog
The World of CSS Transforms The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take...
9th Aug 2021
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9th Aug 2021
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
Matt Keeter
pixelsim
27th Nov 2013
Sedimental
RWC 2016 Lightning Talk Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the Real World Crypto 2016 conference...
7th Jan 2016
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7th Jan 2016
Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the Real World Crypto 2016 conference in Stanford, CA. This is a pseudotranscript of that lightning talk. I'm Mahmoud Hashemi and I work as a Lead Developer at PayPal. I mostly focus on Python frameworks and software...
The Changelog
Artificial Intelligence: Shades of Gray AI sure is a hot topic right now, and I see a lot of people arguing about it. To a lot of people...
25th Mar 2026
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25th Mar 2026
AI sure is a hot topic right now, and I see a lot of people arguing about it. To a lot of people around here, I’m the “computer person” they know and I get asked a lot about AI. I’m going to suggest a lot of things can be true at once. For instance: LLMs … Continue reading...
Buttondown's blog
Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages
19th Jan 2024
A Beautiful Site
Archiving Postleaf Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it...
3rd Feb 2021
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3rd Feb 2021
Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it back as something different. Maybe an open source project. Maybe a SaaS product. I'm not sure at this point. The world still needs a simple platform to encourage blogging and the...
Sebastian Witowski
Let's Write an IPython Extension the Hard Way I love IPython. I love using it, I love writing about it, I love taking pictures with its core...
16th Jul 2020
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16th Jul 2020
I love IPython. I love using it, I love writing about it, I love taking pictures with its core contributors (Hi Paul!). If I ever get invited to the "Talk Python To Me" podcast (not that I have anything interesting to talk about), and Michael Kennedy is going to ask me what my...
Confessions of a...
Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
5th Apr 2025
The Web Witch's Blog
Web Witch's Grimoire: April 2025 I really haven't done a review of my months since November. I've been deep in hibernation mode,...
3rd May 2025
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3rd May 2025
I really haven't done a review of my months since November. I've been deep in hibernation mode, conserving energy for what will be a busy few months. I started to write a log about what happened in March, the first March that did not drag on this year, at least for me, but now...
Eric Bailey
Voice Control Usability Considerations For Partially Visually Hidden Link Names
24th Jun 2022
These Yaks Ain't...
Getting A Local Mastodon Setup In Docker This is the first in probably a series of posts as I dig into the technical aspects of mastodon. My...
2nd Jun 2024
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2nd Jun 2024
This is the first in probably a series of posts as I dig into the technical aspects of mastodon. My goal is to get a better understanding of the design of ActivityPub and how mastodon itself is designed to use ActivityPub. Eventually I want to learn enough to maybe do some...
SOS
React.js: The Documentary In mid-2022 I had a great time taking part in a documentary about the JavaScript framework ReactJS...
12th Dec 2022
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12th Dec 2022
In mid-2022 I had a great time taking part in a documentary about the JavaScript framework ReactJS by the good people at Honeypot, along with many wonderful engineers who also played a part in its success. The film focuses on the early years in the life of ReactJS, including...
ntietz.com blog -...
Kill the crunch time heroics Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You...
2nd Nov 2018
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2nd Nov 2018
Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You can push hard and get that next release done on time, get those new features out, earn more revenue for your company. Engineers are under immense pressure to deliver more and do it...
alexwlchan
Abusing ID3 chapters to turn videos into glanceable podcasts I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I like how they fit around other tasks. I press play, lock my...
2 days ago
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2 days ago
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I like how they fit around other tasks. I press play, lock my phone, and put it down. I’m free to wash the dishes, fold the laundry, or shop for groceries. Unfortunately, more and more information is only published as a video. Technical talks,...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Five It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter...
6th Feb 2023
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6th Feb 2023
It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter of weeks, RevenueCat will become the company where I have worked the longest in my career. As Jason Lemkin says, it’s important to continuously reinvent the company and oneself...
Tony Finch's blog
RIPE DNS Hackathon This weekend I was in Rotterdam for the RIPE DNS Hackathon. About 50 people gathered with several...
22nd May 2023
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22nd May 2023
This weekend I was in Rotterdam for the RIPE DNS Hackathon. About 50 people gathered with several ideas for potential projects: things like easier DNSSEC provisioning, monitoring DNS activity in the network, what is the environmental cost of the DNS, … At the start of the weekend...
Marc Astbury
A quick summary one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the...
11th Oct 2024
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11th Oct 2024
one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the ability to summarize things read any AI product’s value prop and it will say a variation of “it frees you up to do higher order/ value tasks” nobody knows what these higher order...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - October 2022 ✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time...
1st Oct 2022
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1st Oct 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time 🐻 - Shipped an archive page, social sharing improvements, and a showcase of customer websites for P...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Ditch google analytics now: 7 open-source alternatives I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's...
12th Feb 2023
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12th Feb 2023
I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's free, easy to set up (just drop a few tags on the page), and that's what I knew back then. I did not enjoy it being run by a big corporation, but I was too lazy to research the...
charity.wtf
Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
3 days ago
alexwlchan
What mammal is that? I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take...
2nd Jan 2024
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2nd Jan 2024
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot: No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held close to...
alexwlchan
When square pixels aren’t square When I embed videos in web pages, I specify an aspect ratio. For example, if my video is 1920 × 1080...
5th Dec 2025
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5th Dec 2025
When I embed videos in web pages, I specify an aspect ratio. For example, if my video is 1920 × 1080 pixels, I’d write: <video style="aspect-ratio: 1920 / 1080"> If I also set a width or a height, the browser now knows exactly how much space this video will take up on the page –...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Showing UI on mouse move, in Svelte 5 In my note taking application Edna I’ve implemented unorthodox UI feature: in the editor a top left...
11th Jun 2025
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11th Jun 2025
In my note taking application Edna I’ve implemented unorthodox UI feature: in the editor a top left navigation element is only visible when you’re moving the mouse or when mouse is over the element. Here’s UI hidden: Here’s UI visible: The thinking is: when writing, you want...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
1st Dec 2024
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Is It JavaScript? OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest...
2nd Jun 2025
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2nd Jun 2025
OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest of the day debugging an electron issue — @jonkuperman.com on BlueSky “It’s Just JavaScript!” is probably a phrase you’ve heard before. I’ve used it myself a number of times. It...
charity.wtf
Career Development For Engineering Managers (Cross-posted from leaddev.com) What comes to mind when you hear the words, ‘career development for...
3rd Jun 2021
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3rd Jun 2021
(Cross-posted from leaddev.com) What comes to mind when you hear the words, ‘career development for managers’? If you’re like me, it’s one of two things: either obsessively climbing the ladder or those awful mandatory ‘trainings’ that get hastily assembled. (Otherwise known as,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Fave New Podcasts of 2023 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years...
3rd Jan 2024
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3rd Jan 2024
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 and 2022 diffs), so it's time to do year 5(!)
The History of the...
The Analog Web On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The...
16th Apr 2024
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16th Apr 2024
On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The Analog Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
Ruud van Asseldonk
A float walks into a gradual type system
2nd Mar 2025
Remains of the Day
Veblen values NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my...
12th Mar 2020
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12th Mar 2020
NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do some light word-smithing or additional copy-editing because I can never stop...
Joel Gascoigne
The joys and benefits of working as a distributed team * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer is a...
27th Aug 2013
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27th Aug 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer is a fully distributed team. It’s a decision [https://joel.is/post/54284926855/questions-i-ask-myself-about-working-as-distributed] I had to make at the end of 2012, and it’s interesting...
TokyoDev
Recruiters and Human Traffickers: A Short History of Employment Agencies in Japan Japan's [Employment Security...
1st Oct 2020
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1st Oct 2020
Japan's [Employment Security Act](http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail_main?id=10&vm=2&re=) requires a recruitment business to obtain a license. Failure to do so can result in imprisonment of up to a year. While I've met sleazy recruiters, sending them to prison...
Tony Finch's blog
constantly divisionless random numbers Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless...
5th Mar 2025
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5th Mar 2025
Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless unbiased bounded random numbers. The idea was to reduce code bloat by eliminating lots of copies of the random number generator in the rarely-executed slow paths. However a simple...
ntietz.com blog -...
Functional Programming and Big Data Update: I wrote this while preparing a talk for the Columbus Functional Programmers meetup. You can...
12th Nov 2016
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12th Nov 2016
Update: I wrote this while preparing a talk for the Columbus Functional Programmers meetup. You can find the talk on YouTube. It has more humor than these words, but then you'd have to listen to my voice. This post is a long one, so here’s a brief roadmap. We’ll start with a...
Nelson's Weblog
The Transcantábrico Train We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was...
22nd Oct 2023
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22nd Oct 2023
We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was great! Like a cruise but on a train. We did something similar in India in 2015 and it’s an interesting way to travel. Some photos here. The Transcantábrico goes across a part of...
the singularity is...
A dive into the AMD driver workflow I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real...
7th Jun 2023
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7th Jun 2023
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real technical information, but it did include some great phrases like “I am able to replicate the issues you are facing” and some mockable phrases like “We are hoping that this will...
bt RSS Feed
First Letter Pseudo Element First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today’s TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often...
3rd May 2019
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3rd May 2019
First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today’s TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it’s still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset. The HTML Like most...
Irrational...
My desk setup in 2025. Since 2020, I’ve been working on my desk setup, and I think I finally have it mostly pulled together...
7th Jun 2025
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7th Jun 2025
Since 2020, I’ve been working on my desk setup, and I think I finally have it mostly pulled together at this point. I don’t really think my desk setup is very novel, and I’m sure there are better ways to pull it together, but I will say that it finally works the way I want since...
Evan Jones -...
Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of...
29th Aug 2023
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29th Aug 2023
This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of items randomly across a set of servers (e.g. by hashing, or by randomly selecting a server), the average number of items on each server is num_items / num_servers. It is easy to...
Ferd.ca
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go? This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as...
7th Mar 2025
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7th Mar 2025
This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as well. AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what it...
A Beautiful Site
JavaScript functions for basename and dirname Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path)...
16th Sep 2007
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16th Sep 2007
Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path) { return path.replace(/.*\//, ''); } dirname() # function dirname(path) { return path.match(/.*\//); } Unlike their PHP cousins, these functions do not support paths...
TokyoDev
All code is technical debt Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward...
5th Jul 2018
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5th Jul 2018
Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward Cunningham](http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor), is the idea that you can gain a temporary speed boost by rushing software development, at the cost of slowing down future development. This acts like a loan. With a loan,...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Website Contrast Ratio in Practice While perusing Hacker News I ran across a single-page site called Contrast Rebellion— which I...
27th Jul 2012
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27th Jul 2012
While perusing Hacker News I ran across a single-page site called Contrast Rebellion— which I understand has created a bit of controversy. I think the point espoused by Contrast Rebellion is both well-made and well-taken (despite the host of straw-man style arguments to...
Matt Keeter
Please Steal My Meshing Algorithm Idea
3rd Jul 2026
Maggie Appleton
Computational Notebooks Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code
18th Apr 2023
Making software...
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
15th Nov 2016
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15th Nov 2016
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it's parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout). This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
charity.wtf
Know your “One Job” and do it first Story time. Susan was hired as a database engineer. Her primary projects, which are supposed to be...
7th Mar 2021
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7th Mar 2021
Story time. Susan was hired as a database engineer. Her primary projects, which are supposed to be upgrading/rolling out a major point release and running load tests against various config options and developing a schema management tool, keep slipping. But she is one of HR’s...
Tom MacWright
Cooking with glasses I’ve been thinking the new Meta Ray-Ban augmented reality glasses. Not because they failed onstage,...
21st Sep 2025
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21st Sep 2025
I’ve been thinking the new Meta Ray-Ban augmented reality glasses. Not because they failed onstage, which they absolutely did. Or that shortly after they received rave reviews from Victoria Song at The Verge and MKBHD, two of the most influential tech reviewers. My impression is...
David Crawshaw
2015-04-02 "- Picture two conversations sharing a congested gateway as two separate train tracks with one...
2nd Apr 2015
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2nd Apr 2015
"- Picture two conversations sharing a congested gateway as two separate train tracks with one common section.- When a blue train waits for red trains to go through the shared section, the blue trains behind it catch up (get more clumped)- If the merge rules are efficient...
Confessions of a...
Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() Discover why 'if not mylist' is twice as fast as 'len(mylist) == 0' by examining CPython's VM...
12th Mar 2025
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12th Mar 2025
Discover why 'if not mylist' is twice as fast as 'len(mylist) == 0' by examining CPython's VM instructions and object memory access patterns.
Miguel Carranza
Full Circle I’m back in Spain for my brother’s wedding. I rarely visit during the summer. The heat in my...
28th Aug 2024
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28th Aug 2024
I’m back in Spain for my brother’s wedding. I rarely visit during the summer. The heat in my hometown is brutal, around 40 degrees Celsius (over 100 Fahrenheit for my imperial friends). Most people escape to the coast, just like my family did when I was a kid. I haven’t been here...
A Smart Bear
Lost confidence RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without...
21st Jun 2026
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21st Jun 2026
RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without pretending to know the unknowable.
Eric Migicovsky's...
The best Contentsquare alternatives & competitors, compared Contentsquare is a beast, and we mean that in a good way – it's one of the most comprehensive...
2nd Dec 2025
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2nd Dec 2025
Contentsquare is a beast, and we mean that in a good way – it's one of the most comprehensive digital experience platforms out there. They've doubled…
Boot.dev Blog
Boot.dev Beat. January 2023 If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this...
1st Feb 2023
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1st Feb 2023
If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this month.
Boot.dev Blog
Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production" The podcast is available here. Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show!...
9th Dec 2019
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9th Dec 2019
The podcast is available here. Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show! In this episode of Running in Production, I talk with Nick about how we built boot.dev, an open-source password manager that specializes in cryptocurrency. Boot.dev uses Electron...
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Parallel assignment: a Python idiom cleverly optimized
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The faded world: my experience with cataract <![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme....
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22nd Dec 2024
<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme. Until cataract came. In May of 2024 my ophthalmologist confirmed what I surmised: both of my eyes were affected by cataract. It came earlier than my age would suggest but that's...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 06 · Simple branching Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how...
5th Mar 2024
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5th Mar 2024
Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how writers can use branches to try variations on a document.
Steve Klabnik
Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
16th Oct 2020
Eric Bailey
Using a folder other than <code>posts/</code> with Eleventy I just updated this site to use Eleventy. I don’t update enchilada that much anymore. It’s now more...
22nd Nov 2020
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22nd Nov 2020
I just updated this site to use Eleventy. I don’t update enchilada that much anymore. It’s now more a place to centralize all the little tweaks and gotchas of web work, and less a platform for scaffolding websites. In all honestly, enchilada was intended more to be more a simple...
The History of the...
We Are Still the Web Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great...
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5th Aug 2025
Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great opportunity to look back at it. The post We Are Still the Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
tonsky.me
We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa. You look up its current...
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6th Aug 2025
Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa. You look up its current version, which is 1.2.3, and add it to your dependencies: "libpupa": "1.2.3" In turn, the developer of libpupa, when writing its version 1.2.3, needed another library: liblupa. So...
Confessions of a...
Virtual Memory: A Deep Dive into Page Tables, TLBs, and Linux Internals From page faults to NUMA topology: how the Linux kernel manages memory, and what that means for the...
10th May 2026
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10th May 2026
From page faults to NUMA topology: how the Linux kernel manages memory, and what that means for the performance of data-intensive systems.
Buttondown's blog
Let ChatGPT generate your newsletter... Let ChatGPT generate your newsletter...
1st May 2023
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Daily Notes Pages Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems
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4th May 2022
Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems
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The premise trap The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or...
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The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or at work, is avoiding the premise trap. That's where the fundamental assumptions baked into the first draft of the code aren't questioned until you've already spent far too long...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2025
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1st Nov 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in October - Published MCP and the future of AI, Introducing Workshop, Maintenance, Backup Plans,...
Marco.org
Overcast 4.2: The privacy update Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas: Anonymous sync by default Overcast...
27th Apr 2018
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27th Apr 2018
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas: Anonymous sync by default Overcast has offered anonymous sync accounts since 2014. They’re fully functional, but they lack email addresses or passwords, so they can’t log into the website. A login token is stored in...
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Samantha Cristoforetti's Logbook <![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space...
23rd Nov 2024
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23rd Nov 2024
<![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space flight. On November 23, 2014 she was launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a mission to the International Space Station. I had the privilege of helping Samantha with a public...
ByteofDev
JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess Design decisions core to JavaScript have caused a multitude of problems for benchmarking. Is there a...
23rd Dec 2024
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23rd Dec 2024
Design decisions core to JavaScript have caused a multitude of problems for benchmarking. Is there a solution to this?
A Smart Bear
Explore vs Execute The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a...
5th Jan 2025
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5th Jan 2025
The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a culture-shift to switch from one to the other.
MMapped blog
IC internals: XNet protocol
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A Smart Bear
AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous...
3rd Mar 2024
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3rd Mar 2024
The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous technology revolutions like mobile and the Internet. Ignore this at your peril.
Charles Chen
MCP is Dead; Long Live MCP! - Revisited 6 months later, where does MCP stand today?
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My...
13th May 2022
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13th May 2022
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
MMapped blog
When Rust hurts
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A Beautiful Site
Passing data from PHP to JavaScript Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated...
5th Mar 2015
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5th Mar 2015
Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated trying to escape the output properly. Here's a way that always works—no escaping necessary. Let's say we have the following variable in PHP: $name = 'Bob Marley'; And we want to...
Quentin Santos
The RP2350-USB-A cannot see devices disconnect What’s better for New Year’s Eve than debugging some USB hardware issues? In my previous article, I...
1st Jan 2026
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1st Jan 2026
What’s better for New Year’s Eve than debugging some USB hardware issues? In my previous article, I explained how the design of Waveshare’s RP2350-USB-A can make the USB-A host connector incapable of detecting certain USB devices, and of any hot-plugging. The solution was to...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't thank Chat GPT In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are. Not...
30th Jul 2023
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30th Jul 2023
In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are. Not only is there no logical reason to add pleasantries to your chat with GPT, but it also takes tokens for it to remove them and get to the point of your message. Don't thank Chat...
bt RSS Feed
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
2nd Feb 2021
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2nd Feb 2021
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the “Lite” variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
Making software...
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
18th Oct 2018
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18th Oct 2018
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
A Beautiful Site
PHP functions to get and remove the file extension from a string I use these regular expressions all the time, but it's much more convenient to have them both in...
12th Mar 2009
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12th Mar 2009
I use these regular expressions all the time, but it's much more convenient to have them both in convenient PHP functions. // Returns only the file extension (without the dot) function file_ext($filename) { return preg_match('/\./', $filename) ? preg_replace('/^.*\./', '',...
bt RSS Feed
CSS Slope Graphs CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
7th Jun 2021
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7th Jun 2021
CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let’s change that, shall we? The Demo I’m basing...
sancho.dev
Cram tests: a hidden gem of dune
29th Dec 2024
The Web Witch's Blog
2022 Book Roundup In 2021 I only read 6 out of 12 books for my reading challenge. Though to be fair, 4 of those books...
29th Dec 2022
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29th Dec 2022
In 2021 I only read 6 out of 12 books for my reading challenge. Though to be fair, 4 of those books were 900-1000+ page books (The final 4 books of The Wheel of Time). In 2020 I read even less, but pre-2020 I was reading upwards of 24 books a year. In an effort to try to get back...
David Gerrells
thinking around a pen Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that...
1st Sep 2020
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1st Sep 2020
Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that has annoyed me was that over time they have limited features more and more behind a pay wall for a pro account...
Alex Meub
The Office Bell Ringer At my company, it’s a tradition to say “ring the bell” when we sign a new customer, release a new...
19th Feb 2020
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19th Feb 2020
At my company, it’s a tradition to say “ring the bell” when we sign a new customer, release a new feature or receive other positive news, big or small. When we hear the large bell ring in the center of the office, we know that something good just happened. It’s been a great way...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Cognition: The Devin is in the Details My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a...
8th Sep 2025
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8th Sep 2025
My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a lot of sleep, so pardon poor pacing and structure and typos and mistakes but just getting it out there.
Alex Meub
Finding Campsites with Python My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also...
3rd Aug 2015
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3rd Aug 2015
My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also ends up being the most competitive time to find a campsite. If you look up the handful of good campsites on the coast you will probably find that nearly every summer weekend is...
Jordan Eldredge's...
?? "" is a Code Smell Defaulting to empty string is a lie we tell our type checker.
12th Apr 2022
Nue developer blog
Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine **Adam Wathan** explained in his [keynote speech](//youtu.be/CLkxRnRQtDE?t=109) at Tailwind Connect...
18th Feb 2024
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18th Feb 2024
**Adam Wathan** explained in his [keynote speech](//youtu.be/CLkxRnRQtDE?t=109) at Tailwind Connect 2023 how Tailwind CSS was born out of this sentence:
Ruud van Asseldonk
AI alignment starter pack
9th Jun 2024
A Smart Bear
Never say "no," but rarely say "yes." "Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes"...
1st Oct 2023
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1st Oct 2023
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 2) I like to go to the Roadmap of ReasonML from time to time to get excited about what's getting...
3rd May 2019
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3rd May 2019
I like to go to the Roadmap of ReasonML from time to time to get excited about what's getting cooked. Whenever I visit the page, I can't help but notice these 2 points: So the official documentation itself admits that the async story and JSON handling are not that great. This...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Rearranging the File Browser menu for Insphex <![CDATA[Insphex adds the Hexdump item to the File Browser menu to view the hex dump of the selected...
1st Mar 2026
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1st Mar 2026
<![CDATA[Insphex adds the Hexdump item to the File Browser menu to view the hex dump of the selected files. The initial implementation called the public API for adding commands at the top level of the menu. To later move the item to the See sumbenu that groups various file...
Elad Blog
AI Market Clarity A subset of AI markets have crystalized in the last 12 months, with the likely market leaders for...
22nd Jul 2025
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22nd Jul 2025
A subset of AI markets have crystalized in the last 12 months, with the likely market leaders for the next year or two suddenly clear
Blog of Simple...
The EU-US data deal may be dead in the water
11th Mar 2025
macwright.com
Recently October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
1st Nov 2023
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1st Nov 2023
October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New York culture: I saw an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, and then went to see prog-metal band Polyphia play guitar solos as fast as possible. At the latter, there were multiple...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
7th May 2022
Sebastian Witowski
Writing Faster Python - Introduction 2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with...
18th Aug 2020
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18th Aug 2020
2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with Intel CPU. In 2022, I switched to a new MacBook Pro with M1 CPU and decided to also switch to the latest Python 3.11 version as it offers some nice speed-up improvements. So all the...
Irrational...
Judgment and creativity are all you need. When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human...
11th Mar 2026
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11th Mar 2026
When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human attention to complete. Our database migrations were run manually, too. Developing good software is very possible in those circumstances, but it takes a remarkable attention to...
Josh Collinsworth
Five Ways to Become a Better Designer (That Aren't Design) There’s vast world of design learning and opportunity right in front of us constantly. All we need...
4th Feb 2017
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4th Feb 2017
There’s vast world of design learning and opportunity right in front of us constantly. All we need to do is take the time to notice it and learn from it.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Being a minor AI public figure I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
3rd Nov 2023
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3rd Nov 2023
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHnNnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. March 2024 Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was...
28th Feb 2024
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28th Feb 2024
Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was wounded and beaten back, he escaped. We’ll be trying again later this month. Happy coding.
ntietz.com blog -...
Paper Review: Architecture of a Database System Last week, I read "Architecture of a Database System" for a Red Book reading group. This is as...
1st Oct 2022
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1st Oct 2022
Last week, I read "Architecture of a Database System" for a Red Book reading group. This is as massive paper: 119 pages. What surprised me is how approachable it is. I have relatively little background building database systems and more experience using them. Despite this, the...
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 2022-09-02 I’ve recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as...
2nd Sep 2022
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2nd Sep 2022
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 2022-09-02 I’ve recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as my daily operating system. So far, it has been going fairly well. Nothing will probably ever feel as “optimized” as running a Linux-based system but it works well for my current...
Max Countryman
Your Hiring Funnel Is Broken and How to Fix It Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can...
24th Dec 2022
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24th Dec 2022
Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can dramatically improve your odds of hiring exceptional software engineers.
Epic Web Dev
Vitest Browser Mode vs Playwright (article) What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your...
12th Nov 2025
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12th Nov 2025
What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your tests?
Writing - Andreas...
Early-stage engineering Early on you need to be fast. And to do that you have to have the confidence to break with best...
1st Oct 2023
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1st Oct 2023
Early on you need to be fast. And to do that you have to have the confidence to break with best practices.
somenice
Radioactive film lenses and Geiger counter Kit Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that...
17th Mar 2021
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17th Mar 2021
Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In the years following that tragic event, flotsam began arriving on the Pacific West Coast. Volunteers making great effort to return...
Maggie Appleton
A History of Cyborgs Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
1st Nov 2020
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1st Nov 2020
Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
Chris Nicholas
Live cursors with Liveblocks & Next.js Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer!...
2nd Aug 2021
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2nd Aug 2021
Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer! Using Liveblocks and Next.js we can get it working in a matter of minutes.
Buttondown's blog
Fancier exports Fancier exports
15th Aug 2022
ntietz.com blog -...
Units in Go and Rust show philosophical differences Units are a key part of doing any calculation. A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't...
5th Jun 2023
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5th Jun 2023
Units are a key part of doing any calculation. A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't represent anything in particular. If I tell you to go drive 5, you'd naturally ask "5 what?" Software often has to deal with quantities that represent real-world things. How we...
Jordan Eldredge's...
A C program who’s source code is a Magic Eye A 2001 International Obfuscated C Code Contest winner who’s code forms a magic eye and which can...
8th Mar 2025
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8th Mar 2025
A 2001 International Obfuscated C Code Contest winner who’s code forms a magic eye and which can produce a magic eye for any input
Kagi Blog
Update to Kagi Search pricing It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and...
8th Mar 2023
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8th Mar 2023
It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and we have been busy with three main large-scale initiatives: a new pricing model that ensures Kagi’s sustainability, new plans including Family plans, and enhancing search experience...
Boot.dev Blog
How to Use Golang's Generics [Updated since 1.18] Generics in Go have been released with Go 1.18! This is one of the most eagerly-awaited features...
6th Dec 2021
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6th Dec 2021
Generics in Go have been released with Go 1.18! This is one of the most eagerly-awaited features since the release of the language. Many devs have gone so far as to say Go’s previous lack of generic types made the language too painful to use at all. Let’s dive into what generics...
Max Schmitt
Behind the Scenes: Sending Invoices Without Leaving Cakedesk Read the post here.
10th Jul 2025
A Smart Bear
How to hire people who are better than you If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you...
19th Apr 2026
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19th Apr 2026
If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you hire for something you don't understand?
bt RSS Feed
Website Backups with Apple iCloud Website Backups with Apple iCloud 2024-02-16 My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really...
16th Feb 2024
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16th Feb 2024
Website Backups with Apple iCloud 2024-02-16 My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really well with my iPhone SE (they are in the same ecosystem after all - duh!). Since both of these devices are Apple products, it makes sense that I pay for the optional iCloud service...
Tom MacWright
Recently I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense....
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense. July and August were filled with bike rides, 5K races, friends in town, life changes and logistics. For a friend's birthday, we rode the rickety Coney Island Cyclone, which was...
the singularity is...
Are we the baddies? I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every...
5th Jul 2025
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5th Jul 2025
I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every morning and feel okay about themselves? Similarly with the tip screens, Uber algorithm, all the zero sum bullshit using all the tricks of psychology to extract a little bit more...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
1st Feb 2019
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1st Feb 2019
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
blag
Win: contribution to libSQL (SQLite) codebase I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
16th Feb 2024
Alice GG
Plaid Layoffs and beyond Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people). Today I signed my...
13th Dec 2022
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13th Dec 2022
Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people). Today I signed my termination agreement, which makes this week my last week as part of Plaid’s infrastructure team. Kelly Sikkema Moving forward While being laid off and having to leave a very talented...
Matt Keeter
Zero-crossing logic for robust meshing
13th May 2017
Lee A Johnson
Limited Editions and Ticket Demand Or alternatively "Curiosities in Vinyl, Part 4". If you’re not interested in buying music in a...
19th Apr 2025
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19th Apr 2025
Or alternatively "Curiosities in Vinyl, Part 4". If you’re not interested in buying music in a physical form you may well have missed that last Saturday (12th April 2025) was “Record Store Day” (RSD)1. A biannual event where independent record stores are supplied with releases...
A Smart Bear
Navigating the unpredictability of everything We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it...
19th Mar 2023
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19th Mar 2023
We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it means you need these techniques to navigate a volatile world.
Marco.org
Developer relations Apple’s leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: That our apps provide substantial...
3rd Jun 2021
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3rd Jun 2021
Apple’s leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: That our apps provide substantial value to iOS beyond the purchase commissions collected by Apple. That any portion of our customers came to our apps from our own marketing or reputation, rather than the App...
Tinloof - Blog
Using CSS files in web components When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might...
24th Oct 2021
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24th Oct 2021
When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might expect plain CSS files and CSS modules to just work, but they don’t 😱. Here is an example of a CSS module in a React component:
ntietz.com blog -...
[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at...
13th Jul 2015
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13th Jul 2015
I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at first -- I'm a big fan of Schneier's posts online, but I found this randomly at the library and I was hoping not to be disappointed. In the end, it was well worth the read. The book...
Eric Migicovsky's...
In-depth: PostHog vs Matomo PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own...
1st Jun 2022
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1st Jun 2022
PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own infrastructure, giving you complete control over your data…
The Changelog
Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced...
18th Aug 2021
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18th Aug 2021
I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced across multiple machines. I also want to keep the history with git. And, I want to use end-to-end encryption (no storing a plain git repo on a remote server), have a serverless...
David Heinemeier...
Human service is luxury Maybe one day AI will answer every customer question flawlessly, but we're nowhere near that reality...
3rd Mar 2025
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3rd Mar 2025
Maybe one day AI will answer every customer question flawlessly, but we're nowhere near that reality right now. I can't tell you how often I've been stuck in some god-forsaken AI loop or phone tree WHEN ALL I WANT IS A HUMAN. So I end up either just yelling "operator",...
Some Bits: Nelson's...
Japanese Glory Hole Funny Onion gag
2nd Mar 2026
Eric Migicovsky's...
Array 1.4.0 Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array...
7th May 2020
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7th May 2020
Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array 1.4.0 brings plenty of improvements to our core…
TokyoDev
Good Design Sells Open Source I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to [Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a...
7th Aug 2011
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7th Aug 2011
I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to [Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a blogging framework backed by the static site generator [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/). I first read about Octopress a couple of weeks ago on Hacker News. Although Octopress appealed...
Maggie Appleton
A Metaphorical Reading Collection A collection of my favourite books on conceptual metaphor theory
1st Jun 2020
Basta’s Notes
Happier development On programming "the good old fashioned way"
26th Mar 2026
Buttondown's blog
March updates We have lots of great new updates in store!
2nd Mar 2019
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.) When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or...
7th Nov 2017
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7th Nov 2017
When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or the OS for which the code is written. Here’s a typical case: #if defined (_MSC_VER) // code specific to Visual Studio compiler #endif To perform those checks you need to check...
Buttondown's blog
What's your newsletter's North Star? A lodestar makes it easier for people to find you, follow you, and share your work.
11th Oct 2024
Tinloof - Blog
10 Shopify SEO best practices with Sanity and Remix Ecommerce competition keeps increasing - for each product you now have dozens of alternatives. As a...
1st Feb 2023
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1st Feb 2023
Ecommerce competition keeps increasing - for each product you now have dozens of alternatives. As a result, CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) increases, pushing ecommerce business owners to look for more affordable lead generation strategies. SEO is one of them. Online store...
Alex MacCaw
Sailing across the Atlantic
16th Dec 2021
Eric Bailey
Your Image Is Probably Not Decorative
17th Jun 2021
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2023 This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2023
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1st Nov 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in October - Switched my daily driver Aeropress coffee recipe to this one by Jonathan Gagné. It p...
Matt Keeter
Polar Pong
10th Jun 2012
Identity Designed
Bright Barley Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
22nd Apr 2022
wingolog
in which our protagonist dreams of laurels I had a dream the other evening, in which I was at a large event full of hackers—funny, that this is...
17th Dec 2025
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17th Dec 2025
I had a dream the other evening, in which I was at a large event full of hackers—funny, that this is the extent of my dreams at the moment; as a parent of three young kids, I don’t get out much—and, there, I was to receive an award and give a speech. (I know, I am a ridiculous...
The Web Witch's Blog
Personal Sprint Retrospectives Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on...
21st Oct 2022
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21st Oct 2022
Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on Fridays. If you've never done a sprint, a sprint is a set amount of time to complete a specific set of tasks. For example, we work in two week sprints at RapidAPI. I believe we did the...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Winamp in Your Pocket: 63 artist depictions of physical Winamp players A massive dump of every 3D rending and artist concept of physical versions of Winamp
10th Oct 2025
Eric Migicovsky's...
How we made feature flags faster and more reliable Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both...
8th Sep 2023
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8th Sep 2023
Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both your customers and your customer's customers…
Alex MacCaw
We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less...
25th Mar 2025
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25th Mar 2025
At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less consumption, smaller footprints. I believed this too—so much so that I once thought having kids was irresponsible. But the more I looked into it, the less sense it made.
elementary Blog
GTK 4 Porting And A Bit Of Whimsy I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for...
4th Mar 2024
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4th Mar 2024
I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for helping us reach 20% of our monthly funding goal! I’ve been seeing a ton of demand for Early Access which is super exciting. If you’re not already in Early Access, you can be among...
Buttondown's blog
Granular tracking settings Authors now have more control than ever over their data collection
6th Feb 2022
Marc Astbury
Intervention ≠ good Michel de Montaigne, in his ‘Essays,’ recounts the story of a friend who fell sick. Despite...
3rd Feb 2024
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3rd Feb 2024
Michel de Montaigne, in his ‘Essays,’ recounts the story of a friend who fell sick. Despite consulting doctors and trying different treatments, nothing worked. Resigned to his fate, the friend finally gave up all treatments and stopped eating. Surprisingly, this led to an...
Maggie Appleton
June 2023
1st Jun 2023
The Changelog
Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use...
8th Dec 2022
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8th Dec 2022
I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet. Why not let them be carried across LoRa radios, USB sticks, local Wifi networks, and yes, the Internet? I’ll first discuss how, and then why. How do set it up I’ve...
Buttondown's blog
Send teasers of premium emails Send teasers of premium emails
3rd Jun 2022
Matt Keeter
Bumpy
17th Dec 2014
HTMHell
#17 inaccessible cards Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text. Bad code <section> ...
14th Mar 2020
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14th Mar 2020
Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text. Bad code <section> <section> <h2>Overview</h2> <figure class="card" data-url="image1.html" style="background: url(image1.jpg)"> <figcaption> <h4>My heading</h4> ...
charity.wtf
On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself...
19th Apr 2025
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19th Apr 2025
Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself say: I really miss posting on Twitter. I really, really miss it. It’s funny, because Twitter was never not a trash fire. There was never a time when it felt like we were living...
Words and Buttons...
A picture is worth a thousand tags This shows how a picture can be turned into an HTML table. With this, you can not only have nicer...
8th May 2021
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8th May 2021
This shows how a picture can be turned into an HTML table. With this, you can not only have nicer tables or uglier pictures, but you can have something that is both at the same time.
Sometimes It Works...
Code: Selfish Code: Selfish What it’s not What it is Be selfish ¶Code: Selfish I want to talk about coding...
11th Nov 2018
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11th Nov 2018
Code: Selfish What it’s not What it is Be selfish ¶Code: Selfish I want to talk about coding selfishly. This isn’t what you think. Coding selfishly is about assessing your motivations, your joys and coding in a way that brings you the most long-term value. It’s really a form of...
blag
SQLite Slaps why SQLite is cracked
18th Jun 2024
Steve Klabnik
Looking back at Rust in 2018
9th Jan 2018
DevOps - Bitfield...
In search of lost teams As a technical leader, how do you spot when your team is lost in the weeds, and is there anything...
29th Sep 2020
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29th Sep 2020
As a technical leader, how do you spot when your team is lost in the weeds, and is there anything you can do about it? Leadership expert Mike Thomas explains.
Elad Blog
Early days of AI Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it...
21st Aug 2023
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21st Aug 2023
Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it is worth thinking of this as an entirely new era and discontinuity from the past
Liz Denys
Notes on pandemic eats, March to mid-October 2020 I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian...
17th Oct 2020
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17th Oct 2020
I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian before the start of a pandemic was really convenient. Few things beat having a bunch of dried beans, lentils, and veggies plus a bunch of rice on in my pantry while you're figuring...
Alice GG
5 kubectl plugins to make your life easier I have been using Kubernetes for five years, but only very recently started using plugins to enhance...
8th Aug 2023
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8th Aug 2023
I have been using Kubernetes for five years, but only very recently started using plugins to enhance my kubectl commands. I will show you five plugins that help me avoid repetitive tasks, make cluster administration simpler, and incident response less stressful. All the plugins...
The Changelog
More Topics on Store-And-Forward (Possibly Airgapped) ZFS and Non-ZFS Backups with NNCP Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and...
4th Jan 2021
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4th Jan 2021
Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and NNCP. In my previous post, I introduced a way to use ZFS backups over NNCP. In this post, I’ll expand on that and also explore non-ZFS backups. Use of nncp-file instead of nncp-exec...
Coding Horror
Hacker, Hack Thyself We've read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to...
2nd Jun 2017
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2nd Jun 2017
We've read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to security exploits. We took that lesson to heart when we founded the Discourse project; we endeavor to build open source software that is secure and safe for communities by default,...
Vadim Kravcenko
What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks Question: Answer: The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on...
9th Jul 2024
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9th Jul 2024
Question: Answer: The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Tinloof - Blog
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
8th Jan 2019
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8th Jan 2019
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...

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