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Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux...
11th Sep 2023
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Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Sep 2023
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux for my main work environment on my ThinkPad X260. It's been great. As someone who is constantly drawn to minimalist operating systems such as Alpine or OpenBSD, it's nice to use...
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Clojure macros continue to surprise me Clojure macros have two modes: avoid them at all costs/do very basic stuff, or go absolutely...
15th Jul 2024
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Clojure macros continue to surprise me

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jul 2024
Clojure macros have two modes: avoid them at all costs/do very basic stuff, or go absolutely crazy. Here’s the problem: I’m working on Humble UI’s component library, and I wanted to document it. While at it, I figured it could serve as an integration test as well—since I showcase...
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Being a good mentor – a developers guide Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and...
8th Jul 2023
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Being a good mentor – a developers guide

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2023
Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and illuminate the path ahead. I’ve […] The post Being a good mentor – a developers guide appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole) This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of...
17th Aug 2023
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How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole)

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Aug 2023
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust. I got a couple requests to turn it into a blog post for sharing purposes; here you go.🌈✨🥂 In this doc I mention Christine, my wonderful, brilliant cofounder and CEO,...
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Adventures in pixel space
30th Mar 2025
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Adventures in pixel space

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Mar 2025
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Dear Conference Organizer Dear Conference Organizer, First of all, thank you for all the hard work! Most Python conference...
22nd Oct 2023
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Dear Conference Organizer

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Oct 2023
Dear Conference Organizer, First of all, thank you for all the hard work! Most Python conference organizers I know don't get paid for their work. Yet, they pour countless hours into helping people spread knowledge and bringing the community together every year. And just like...
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Focus on the line, not the dot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I...
2nd Jan 2013
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Focus on the line, not the dot

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * 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...
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A Tour of Winamp2-js Features Demo videos of Winamp2-js' more interesting features with notes on how they are implemented.
8th Mar 2018
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A Tour of Winamp2-js Features

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Mar 2018
Demo videos of Winamp2-js' more interesting features with notes on how they are implemented.
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2026 A new year and another record broken! In January a combined 4,016,641 lessons and challenges were...
11th Feb 2026
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2026

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Feb 2026
A new year and another record broken! In January a combined 4,016,641 lessons and challenges were completed by you, dear pupils! And to top it off, we’re now releasing the much anticipated Power BI Course by none other than Alex the Analyst! I hope you enjoy it.
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Based-30b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/based-30b So, as I was working on Wizard-Vicuna-30b-Uncensored and...
3rd Jun 2023
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Based-30b

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2023
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/based-30b So, as I was working on Wizard-Vicuna-30b-Uncensored and WizardLM-Uncensored-Falcon-7b, I came to the realization that these models, despite being trained with no refusals, were still refusing. How could this be? It dawned on me, that...
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The Livelymerge Experiment Introducing Livelymerge.
5th Jun 2026
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The Livelymerge Experiment

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jun 2026
Introducing Livelymerge.
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Bazel and action (non-) determinism A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of...
21st Jul 2025
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Bazel and action (non-) determinism

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Jul 2025
A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of actions.
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Naked Emperors in Tech Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
6th Nov 2020
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Naked Emperors in Tech

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Nov 2020
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
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2016-01-01 "It’s a Cortex M4F MCU with extraordinarily-low current consumption. How low? They’re quoting 34...
1st Jan 2016
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2016-01-01

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2016
"It’s a Cortex M4F MCU with extraordinarily-low current consumption. How low? They’re quoting 34 uA/MHz running from flash." www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/break-points/4441091/Subthreshold-transistors-and-MCUs
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Exploiting Firebase Apps with Baserunner: Bibliography
20th Aug 2025
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Exploiting Firebase Apps with Baserunner: Bibliography

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Aug 2025
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How To Make HTTP Requests In Elm
12th Dec 2018
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How To Make HTTP Requests In Elm

from James Vaughan's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Dec 2018
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Market Ending Moves Startup CEOs should ask themselves what crazy ideas can turn into a move that just ends a market's...
8th Apr 2025
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Market Ending Moves

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2025
Startup CEOs should ask themselves what crazy ideas can turn into a move that just ends a market's competitive dynamic
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The five types of people who produce inaccessible code There are roughly five types of people you’ll meet doing accessibility development work. They...
16th Jun 2023
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The five types of people who produce inaccessible code

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jun 2023
There are roughly five types of people you’ll meet doing accessibility development work. They are: People who create inaccessible code, but do not realize they are doing so. People who create inaccessible code and realize they are doing so, but do not know how to fix it. People...
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Upward assignment in Ruby Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it...
13th Jan 2023
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Upward assignment in Ruby

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jan 2023
Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it added rightward assignment (4 => x). Then at RubyConf 2021, Kevin Kuchta explained how to abuse Ruby features to build a downward assignment operator (yes, this really...
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You’re probably using the wrong dictionary The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose...
18th May 2014
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You’re probably using the wrong dictionary

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th May 2014
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose sense you're unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word -- like example, or sport, or magic -- because all you'll learn is what it means, and that you already know....
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Google loses key antitrust case
9th Sep 2024
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Google loses key antitrust case

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Sep 2024
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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...
6th Jan 2022
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Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jan 2022
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...
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Leaving Google Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work...
27th Mar 2018
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Leaving Google

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Mar 2018
Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work filled with excellent coworkers. I am sad to be leaving Fuchsia before 1.0. As an operating system it gets so many things right. No doubt I will get a chance to be a user. For the...
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Managing Python Ecosystems You know that old quote: The wider the net you cast, the wider the variety you catch. Was it a wise...
24th May 2016
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Managing Python Ecosystems

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th May 2016
You know that old quote: The wider the net you cast, the wider the variety you catch. Was it a wise old fisherman? Or a dogged Python programmer? Either way, words don't come much truer than those. Few, if any, programming languages have embodied the description "general-purpose"...
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Follow-up: the Glove80 after six months A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split...
8th Apr 2024
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Follow-up: the Glove80 after six months

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2024
A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split keyboard has been after about six months of daily use.
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March updates There have been a bunch of great Buttondown updates.
4th Apr 2018
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March updates

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Apr 2018
There have been a bunch of great Buttondown updates.
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The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
3rd Sep 2021
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The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Sep 2021
Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator journey.
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What I'm up to - June 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jun 2025
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What I'm up to - June 2025

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - On Contraption Company, I published An app of one's own about building a personal ...
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Moving my Glitch apps to my own web server About six weeks ago, Glitch announced that they’re shutting down. Glitch was a platform where you...
8th Jul 2025
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Moving my Glitch apps to my own web server

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2025
About six weeks ago, Glitch announced that they’re shutting down. Glitch was a platform where you could make websites and web apps, with a heavy emphasis on creativity and sharing. You could read the source code for any project to understand how it worked, and remix somebody...
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Wireheading City I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line: There’s a fine line...
11th Apr 2023
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Wireheading City

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Apr 2023
I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line: There’s a fine line that defines civilization. Several beggars approached me on the street, and I didn’t give them anything. I suspect they would be surprised to learn that we have worse beggars in...
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What I'm up to - September 2022 This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing,...
1st Sep 2022
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What I'm up to - September 2022

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing, Walden-esque week in Mexico City, spent mostly in Parque México. I spent a lot of time reading - includi...
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Things I enjoyed in 2023 Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
30th Dec 2023
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Things I enjoyed in 2023

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Dec 2023
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
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DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1 Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I...
21st Dec 2021
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DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1

from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Dec 2021
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I received a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer for my birthday. One of my earliest memories I remember is sitting with my Dad, reading the manual to work out the magic commands to load...
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Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least...
9th May 2023
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Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2023
Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation.
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Coaching and feedback within startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in...
14th Jul 2013
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Coaching and feedback within startups

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jul 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in the past about the evolution of our culture at Buffer [https://joel.is/post/37639846554/the-evolution-of-culture-at-a-startup]. One of the things we started to do at around 6-7...
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Array 1.0.10 Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features....
1st Apr 2020
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Array 1.0.10

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2020
Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features. Release notes Users in Trend Graphs Whilst we have…
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A demo notefile for WebCard <![CDATA[To complete WebCard for my RetroChallenge 2024 project I created a demo notefile, a file...
27th Oct 2024
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A demo notefile for WebCard

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Oct 2024
<![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...
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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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Every Achievement Has A Denominator

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

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...
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.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
4th Oct 2023
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.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Oct 2023
Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
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Vibe Coding and the Existential Dread of Progress Does anyone else hate the term vibe coding? I’ve been pretty resistant to incorporating AI directly...
19th Jul 2025
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Vibe Coding and the Existential Dread of Progress

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Jul 2025
Does anyone else hate the term vibe coding? I’ve been pretty resistant to incorporating AI directly into my development workflow. I use it all the time to clean up emails, Slack messages, and blog posts (including this one). It’s helped me plan vacations, write my cover letter...
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Public postmortem: tracked links unavailable Our public postmortem for the incident on May 8th, 2026.
3rd Jun 2026
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Public postmortem: tracked links unavailable

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2026
Our public postmortem for the incident on May 8th, 2026.
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Buyers define marketplaces A marketplace business connects buyers and sellers in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Some of...
7th Jun 2020
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Buyers define marketplaces

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jun 2020
A marketplace business connects buyers and sellers in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Some of today's biggest companies, such as Amazon, Uber, and Airbnb, are marketplaces. Yes, these companies cha...
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How to timeout a promise Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request...
2nd Apr 2021
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How to timeout a promise

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Apr 2021
Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request to an endpoint and a response does not, for whatever reason, come soon, we act as if the request failed and fall back to plan B — try again, show an error message and let the user...
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Installing Guix on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1 The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from eBay. I loved that laptop,...
5th Dec 2022
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Installing Guix on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2022
The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from eBay. I loved that laptop, but time marches on and old hardware eventually becomes too slow for modern development needs. After a lot of indecision, I bought a 10th generation Thinkpad X1 with an Intel Core...
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Recently The snow has been tough for my running schedule in February but it's starting to clear and...
1st Mar 2026
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Recently

from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2026
The snow has been tough for my running schedule in February but it's starting to clear and temperatures have started to lift. Yesterday got in a solid 45 miles of cycling, including up to this point near the George Washington Bridge, and back on the Tappan Zee. Listening I didn't...
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2015-01-10 what-if.xkcd.com/124/
10th Jan 2015
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2015-01-10

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2015
what-if.xkcd.com/124/
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Finally! I said "no"! 😱 The only offer on the table I'm no beggar I haven't been super vocal about this very...
17th Apr 2023
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Finally!

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Apr 2023
I said "no"! 😱 The only offer on the table I'm no beggar I haven't been super vocal about this very much over the past few months (I maybe need to be better at that?), but you may know that I left Elvie back at the end of October 2022. I was there for almost 6 years, the...
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What I'm up to - January 2024 Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Jan 2024
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What I'm up to - January 2024

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2024
Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Published updates to Booklet, including a design refresh, dynamic op...
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Yearly Reading: Done and To Do Reading fiction is not that dissimilar from watching a movie in your brain. The ways in which...
26th Jan 2017
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Yearly Reading: Done and To Do

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Jan 2017
Reading fiction is not that dissimilar from watching a movie in your brain. The ways in which audio-visual consumption of fiction and reading fiction diverge is in their demand on engagement – when reading I must learn new words, I struggle to find meaning, I use my imagination,...
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How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You? Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to...
11th Oct 2024
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How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Oct 2024
Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero interest rate phenomenon...
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Why Build a Robot Company? So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
6th Feb 2023
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Why Build a Robot Company?

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2023
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
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What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
3rd May 2024
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What is psephology?

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2024
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
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The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
7th May 2021
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The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2021
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
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The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the...
4th Mar 2022
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The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2022
It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for
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Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
10th Sep 2017
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Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Sep 2017
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites. AWS Certficate Manager I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
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Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy When even "free" is too expensive.
4th May 2025
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Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th May 2025
When even "free" is too expensive.
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Thoughts on React vs Vue vs Everything Else in 2023 My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
3rd Dec 2022
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Thoughts on React vs Vue vs Everything Else in 2023

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2022
My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
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Navigating personal information with care Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020,...
24th Sep 2023
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Navigating personal information with care

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Sep 2023
Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020, we developed some technology and processes to support a very simple principle: employees shouldn’t have access — intentionally or unintentionally — to personal information from our...
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Vibe Code is Legacy Code Vibe code is legacy code by Steve Krouse
2nd Aug 2025
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Vibe Code is Legacy Code

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2025
Vibe code is legacy code by Steve Krouse
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ioctls from Rust Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
13th Feb 2025
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ioctls from Rust

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2025
Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2024 The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete!...
7th Oct 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2024

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Oct 2024
The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete! We have no big plans to make serious modifications (tbh I always say this though, so idk). To be clear, that’s the first half of the track complete - the first 13 courses up to the...
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The Money Filter One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for...
30th Nov 2025
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The Money Filter

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Nov 2025
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for next to nothing. Somewhere along the way, the perception formed that a website is a commodity—quick, cheap, and interchangeable. So when someone asks what I charge (for a very...
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Tutorial: stable-structures
20th Jan 2023
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Tutorial: stable-structures

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jan 2023
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Should we cool it with the historical present? On podcasts it's pretty common to hear something like this: So Alexander Hamilton has just finished...
22nd Oct 2021
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Should we cool it with the historical present?

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Oct 2021
On podcasts it's pretty common to hear something like this: So Alexander Hamilton has just finished law school, and he's trying to make a name for himself. He's only been in New York a few years. So he takes on this case... The problem with the past tense ("Hamilton had just...
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Sloppy Copies Last month, I wrote an article about my recent experience creating a hobby project in a web...
19th Apr 2026
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Sloppy Copies

from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2026
Last month, I wrote an article about my recent experience creating a hobby project in a web framework - Ruby on Rails - that hasn’t been “in fashion” for some time. The blog post gathered some interest and made it to various discussion sites like Hacker News and others. It caused...
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Don't push to production...
1st May 2019
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2019
VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Don't push to production |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (___/) || (⌾ㅅ⌾) || / 　 づ — Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly) April 12, 2019 So, that happened. I hadn’t seen anyone say something like this in quite a while.  I remember saying things like...
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A float walks into a gradual type system
2nd Mar 2025
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A float walks into a gradual type system

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2025
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A Tool for Discussion At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design...
2nd Feb 2023
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A Tool for Discussion

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2023
At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design decisions. They document the processes, APIs, and tools that we use. The workflow for the RFD process is based upon those of the Golang proposal process, Joyent RFD process, Rust...
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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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How to Use Golang's Generics [Updated since 1.18]

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

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...
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Focus For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013, in...
14th Sep 2022
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Focus

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Sep 2022
For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013, in JavaScript. It’s the first time in a while I’ve made a project just for kicks. If you look at the number of GitHub repositories I’ve committed to since 2013, the number is decreasing. Same...
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How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS? When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky...
6th Feb 2023
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How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS?

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2023
When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question. On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waking up to an unexpected 100k$ bill from their provider. But on the other hand, you will see providers advertising costs...
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How Jamie Thingelstad uses Buttondown Jamie uses his newsletter to explore various tech topics and share his continuous technology...
1st Dec 2025
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How Jamie Thingelstad uses Buttondown

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2025
Jamie uses his newsletter to explore various tech topics and share his continuous technology learning journey with readers.
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The Surprising Power of Documentation I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings...
11th Jun 2023
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The Surprising Power of Documentation

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jun 2023
I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings the […] The post The Surprising Power of Documentation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older...
18th Jul 2018
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Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jul 2018
Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older generation of web scraping and spidering tools would grab and analyze HTML pages as returned by a web server. It doesn’t work well anymore because less and less website are static...
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The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst....
3rd Nov 2022
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The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Nov 2022
Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst. What is happening, and why?
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Building the Open Task Light
31st Aug 2026
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Building the Open Task Light

from James Vaughan's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Aug 2026
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From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing I was just watching a panel on observability, with a handful of industry executives and experts who...
24th Nov 2025
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From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Nov 2025
I was just watching a panel on observability, with a handful of industry executives and experts who shall remain nameless and hopefully duly obscured—their identities are not the point, the point is that this is a mainstream view among engineering executives and my head is...
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Bottle glass planter and drip tray, 2024 Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
1st Mar 2024
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Bottle glass planter and drip tray, 2024

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2024
Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
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I’m (re-)starting a newsletter Just a quick update to let those of you who bookmarked this blog or who have subscribed to my RSS...
11th May 2026
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I’m (re-)starting a newsletter

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th May 2026
Just a quick update to let those of you who bookmarked this blog or who have subscribed to my RSS feed know that I have (re-)started a newsletter. Why a newsletter? As you might know (or not), while I’ve been pretty active on LinkedIn over the years, I do have a love-hate (or...
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Career Retrospective: Being Interviewed I'm starting a series on what I learned during my four decades as a working programmer. First, I...
4th Apr 2024
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Career Retrospective: Being Interviewed

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Apr 2024
I'm starting a series on what I learned during my four decades as a working programmer. First, I will describe my experience of being interviewed. Interviews are part of being a programmer; every time you find a new job, you will go through interviews, which allow a prospective
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#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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#17 inaccessible cards

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

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> ...
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Crash and Burnout In the last year I have changed jobs, moved twice (one of those internationally) and traveled about...
10th Apr 2023
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Crash and Burnout

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2023
In the last year I have changed jobs, moved twice (one of those internationally) and traveled about 120,000 miles. I've been working on finishing my book, caught covid, and was diagnosed with bipolar depression and Hashimoto's disease. Additionally, with so much travel, I've had...
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Firebase Analytics in 30 Seconds ---
2nd Dec 2017
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Firebase Analytics in 30 Seconds

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2017
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Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
6th Jan 2019
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Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jan 2019
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
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Crafting a chatbot people will use: Part 1
21st Jun 2017
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Crafting a chatbot people will use: Part 1

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Jun 2017
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Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in...
7th Aug 2024
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Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes)

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Aug 2024
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dirty on the personal blog, and not bother bringing it up to the editorial standards...
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AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You .highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color:...
22nd Apr 2024
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AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You

from Renegade Otter [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2024
.highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color: var(--theme-secondary-background-color); border-radius: 10px; } The firehose of data is turned on In the beginning, the Internet was a small, cozy place. Most people weren’t online, and most businesses...
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Making a Website Under 1kB Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
2nd Aug 2022
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Making a Website Under 1kB

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2022
Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn't as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
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Switching From C++ to Rust Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years...
13th Mar 2023
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Switching From C++ to Rust

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Mar 2023
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust. I would like to share my experience and thoughts on the transition between 2 languages. Disclaimer: This article is not a C++ vs Rust...
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Convert arrays to CSV with PHP The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values)...
3rd Oct 2007
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Convert arrays to CSV with PHP

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Oct 2007
The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values) format. function csv($array) { $csv = ""; for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) { $csv .= '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $array[$i]) . '"'; if ($i < count($array) - 1) $csv .= ","; ...
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Escaping the local maxima when i was a student, everything was simpler. grind leetcode. build projects. get an offer. i knew...
5th Apr 2025
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Escaping the local maxima

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2025
when i was a student, everything was simpler. grind leetcode. build projects. get an offer. i knew the salaries. i knew what “winning” looked like. it was a somewhat straight line from broke student to backend engineer at a top company. and i did it, i 10x my life in the span of...
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Should testers write unit tests? This post was previously published through my newsletter on May 25, 2026. From time to time, I will...
20th Aug 2026
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Should testers write unit tests?

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Aug 2026
This post was previously published through my newsletter on May 25, 2026. From time to time, I will republish newsletter issues on my blog here if I think people (and search engines) might benefit from it. If you want to read everything I’ve written once it is posted, I recommend...
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Errata in Hekaton MVCC paper Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error...
20th Apr 2023
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Errata in Hekaton MVCC paper

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Apr 2023
Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error with one of the authors. This blog post explains the mistake, the implications and the fix.
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Grit Multipliers People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder....
4th Dec 2022
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Grit Multipliers

from Writing - Andreas Fragner [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2022
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder. The argument goes that without co-founders, you get faster decision making, and since speed is one of most important advantages you have, you get a better shot at iterating...
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Trolley Problems as a Service Consider: It’s not getting any simpler to live in this world, is it?  💔 Ethical problems are hard. ...
30th May 2020
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Trolley Problems as a Service

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th May 2020
Consider: It’s not getting any simpler to live in this world, is it?  💔 Ethical problems are hard.  Even the ones that seem straightforward on the face of them get stickier the closer you look at them.  There are more stakeholders, more caveats, more cautionary tales, more...
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Haunt 0.3.0 released Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years since the last release, and many...
19th Feb 2024
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Haunt 0.3.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Feb 2024
Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years since the last release, and many fixes and improvements have been accumulated so this is long overdue! About Haunt Haunt is a static site generator that uses the Guile Scheme as its configuration language. It...
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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...
19th Feb 2024
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How we built our onboarding email flow (with actual performance data)

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Feb 2024
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks they're annoying and ineffective. The truth, as…
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Building a Wi-Fi Controlled Nerf Turret Earlier this year, I decided to build a 3D-printed Nerf turret with streaming video that is fully...
31st Jul 2022
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Building a Wi-Fi Controlled Nerf Turret

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jul 2022
Earlier this year, I decided to build a 3D-printed Nerf turret with streaming video that is fully controllable from a web browser. It’s something a 6th grader would have thought was a good use of time, but for some reason as a dad in my thirties, I spent the last several months...
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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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Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

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...
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Mach’s principle
2nd Jul 2023
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Mach’s principle

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2023
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Querying through shadow roots Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from...
4th Aug 2021
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Querying through shadow roots

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Aug 2021
Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace. <sl-button>Click me</sl-button> Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
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Git Advice Git can be confusing. It’s more confusing fumbling with git under pressure. As a release engineer...
31st Jul 2018
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Git Advice

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jul 2018
Git can be confusing. It’s more confusing fumbling with git under pressure. As a release engineer fumbling with git under pressure is a appreciable chunk of my job; as such, I’ve learned a trick or two. Recently I added some general git advice to our shared wiki page for...
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A review of the blog in 2024 I didn’t write much this year. The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative...
31st Dec 2024
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A review of the blog in 2024

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2024
I didn’t write much this year. The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative mental capacity leaving little for writing. The backlog is brimming, however. Targets for 2024 ❌ Publish at least 40 posts 11 ❌ Reach at least 200k readers Don’t have an...
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A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is...
5th Feb 2019
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A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2019
I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is one of the reasons I ride my bike to work). I was curious to learn more about it. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, Portland parking ticket data is available to anyone who...
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Designing a fast I wake up with a jolt, spilling most of my breakfast cereal onto a thirsty couch. My eyes find the...
16th Jul 2015
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Designing a fast

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2015
I wake up with a jolt, spilling most of my breakfast cereal onto a thirsty couch. My eyes find the clock. Cleaning will have to wait. I'm downing water like there's no tomorrow, but really tomorrow starts in one minute. Still drinking. All work is thirsty work if the day is long...
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Man cereal Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and,...
3rd Mar 2026
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Man cereal

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2026
Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and, perhaps permanently and irreparably, stole a small piece of his joy.
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The 2021 International Developers in Japan results are live! In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
18th Jan 2022
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The 2021 International Developers in Japan results are live!

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jan 2022
In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2021-developer-survey), please check them out! With 435 people responding, I had about 20% more responses than [2020's...
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Reasons to write design docs Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half...
2nd Sep 2024
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Reasons to write design docs

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2024
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half true, though, since my job is as much about people and communication as it is about technology. Probably more, actually. Writing is useful at all levels of software engineering. It's...
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No Observability Without Theory: The Talk Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at...
3rd Jul 2024
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No Observability Without Theory: The Talk

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jul 2024
Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at Monitorama 2024. If you’ve never been to Monitorama, I can’t recommend it enough. I think it’s the best tech conference, period. This talk was adapted from an old blog post of mine,...
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Free Edition of Charles Gounod’s Le Crucifix I typeset a Creative Commons edition of Charles Gounod's a cappella choral work 'Le Crucifix'.
1st Oct 2013
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Free Edition of Charles Gounod’s Le Crucifix

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2013
I typeset a Creative Commons edition of Charles Gounod's a cappella choral work 'Le Crucifix'.
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New Loose Leaf Security episode: Covering your webcams! Plus, our new newsletter and articles! A new episode of Loose Leaf Security is out to remind you to cover your webcams when you aren't...
22nd Aug 2019
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New Loose Leaf Security episode: Covering your webcams! Plus, our new newsletter and articles!

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Aug 2019
A new episode of Loose Leaf Security is out to remind you to cover your webcams when you aren't using them, and it features my favorite episode art yet: Covering your webcams Liz and Geoffrey take a look at how attackers compromise webcams and discuss why it's worth physically...
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New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your laptop and desktop computers Four more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your laptop and desktop...
14th Dec 2018
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New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your laptop and desktop computers

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Dec 2018
Four more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your laptop and desktop computers: Physical attacks to your computers and disk encryption Liz and Geoffrey are back with a look at physical computer security - just how much trouble could someone cause if...
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The EU-US data deal may be dead in the water
11th Mar 2025
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The EU-US data deal may be dead in the water

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2025
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Laying myself off from Amazon
16th Nov 2022
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Laying myself off from Amazon

from Daniel Immke [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Nov 2022
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What's With All the Humanoid Robots? If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid...
7th May 2024
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What's With All the Humanoid Robots?

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2024
If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid robot startups. What's with that? Why humanoids? Why now?
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The case for null in design systems
5th Jul 2022
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The case for null in design systems

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jul 2022
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Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or...
6th Nov 2023
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Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Nov 2023
Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or this one: "We don't need to make it accessible since we don't have any blind users 1 ." It belies an attitude that's all too common in the software industry: That accessibility...
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Thanks, 201X! Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade. Been a long ten...
2nd Dec 2019
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Thanks, 201X!

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2019
Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade. Been a long ten years, but it's flown past. This particular decade happens to coincide with my first years of full-time professional software engineering. The Quantity I can't possibly summarize it...
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Browser makers: where’s the new tab + homepage option? Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful...
7th Aug 2009
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Browser makers: where’s the new tab + homepage option?

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Aug 2009
Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful of tabs open in my web browser at any time. Whether I'm developing, checking email, or just surfing around, I can never seem to have enough tabs! But there's one thing about this...
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2014-05-06 "No space for poem" twitter.com/rob_pike/status/463859025361125377
6th May 2014
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2014-05-06

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th May 2014
"No space for poem" twitter.com/rob_pike/status/463859025361125377
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Next.js: How to add a Contact Form (Pages Router) Read the post here.
1st Mar 2024
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Next.js: How to add a Contact Form (Pages Router)

from Max Schmitt [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2024
Read the post here.
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Top 20 Helpdesk Interview Questions (with answers) Help desk interviews usually test two things at once: whether you understand the technical basics,...
8th Mar 2026
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Top 20 Helpdesk Interview Questions (with answers)

from Founder's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Mar 2026
Help desk interviews usually test two things at once: whether you understand the technical basics, and whether you can explain those basics to a person who may already be annoyed, confused, or late for a meeting. That combination matters. A support technician who can diagnose a...
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Rendering “modern” Winamp skins in the browser Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp...
20th Nov 2024
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Rendering “modern” Winamp skins in the browser

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Nov 2024
Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp skins in the browser
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Park Games As the shedding of the luck-bean tree forms coral carpets on the grass below; as the birds begin...
17th Sep 2022
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Park Games

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Sep 2022
As the shedding of the luck-bean tree forms coral carpets on the grass below; as the birds begin their morning song earlier into the fourth watch of the night, calling the sun to come out to play; as new flowering greens shoot out of chronic brown branches; urban nature dances to...
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The best product analytics tools for startups, compared A tale as old as time: a founding team ships their MVP, installs Google Analytics , watches...
4th Mar 2026
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The best product analytics tools for startups, compared

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2026
A tale as old as time: a founding team ships their MVP, installs Google Analytics , watches pageview numbers go up, and feels good about themselves…
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Golang vs C++: Which is Best For Your Next Project Needing to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past. High-level programming...
12th Jul 2021
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Golang vs C++: Which is Best For Your Next Project

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jul 2021
Needing to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past. High-level programming languages offer an alternative to low-level machine code, which makes coding more accessible than ever. Let’s dive into how Golang, a modern higher-level language, matches up to C++, a...
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Daily Notes Pages Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems
4th May 2022
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Daily Notes Pages

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th May 2022
Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems
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Chatting about Shadow DOM I had a chance to go on Igalia Chats and walk through the history of Shadow DOM with Eric Meyer,...
5th Dec 2025
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Chatting about Shadow DOM

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2025
I had a chance to go on Igalia Chats and walk through the history of Shadow DOM with Eric Meyer, Brian Kardell, and Jeremy Keith. It was a fun, and pretty light discussion, but I learned a ton. The post Chatting about Shadow DOM appeared first on The History of the Web.
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The imminent risk of vibe coding Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
30th Jan 2026
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The imminent risk of vibe coding

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jan 2026
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
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Texttools dot py I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain...
14th Aug 2024
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Texttools dot py

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Aug 2024
I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain with an image: Paste text in the top box, choose a transform, output appears in the bottom box. I can already do most of these transformations in vim, or with one of the many...
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Learnings after 4 years at ahrefs TBD
12th Oct 2024
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Learnings after 4 years at ahrefs

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Oct 2024
TBD
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Simple Accessibility Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
7th Sep 2018
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Simple Accessibility

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Sep 2018
Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward: Basic design Test that your project has the proper...
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Building a new personal website Yesterday I launched a new version of this website. When finishing big projects, I always experience...
15th Feb 2021
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Building a new personal website

from Daniel Immke [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Feb 2021
Yesterday I launched a new version of this website. When finishing big projects, I always experience this odd phenomenon where the final…
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Getting better at the New York Times crossword I started doing crossword puzzles sometime in 2019. After learning the basics of American crossword...
15th Apr 2021
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Getting better at the New York Times crossword

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Apr 2021
I started doing crossword puzzles sometime in 2019. After learning the basics of American crossword puzzles, the best way to improve is to solve daily. As a budding cruciverbalist you develop a few key skills. The NYTimes website has an excellent guide on the basics of solving....
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how fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
9th Nov 2024
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how fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Nov 2024
The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
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Advanced Vitest Patterns (workshop) Learn advanced Vitest patterns—custom fixtures, matchers, and performance tuning—to craft faster,...
6th Aug 2025
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Advanced Vitest Patterns (workshop)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Aug 2025
Learn advanced Vitest patterns—custom fixtures, matchers, and performance tuning—to craft faster, more effective test experiences.
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Unintuitive default: who can edit access in Google Docs When you create a new Google Doc, you have the option to share it with others to view or edit....
11th Nov 2018
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Unintuitive default: who can edit access in Google Docs

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Nov 2018
When you create a new Google Doc, you have the option to share it with others to view or edit. Viewing permission is straightforward, just view access, but by default, editors have the ability not just to edit the content of the document but also to edit sharing permissions. If...
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Implementing HATEOS with presenters
6th Jan 2012
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Implementing HATEOS with presenters

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jan 2012
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Using global memoization in React When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a...
9th Feb 2022
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Using global memoization in React

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2022
When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a hammer that often works well, and makes it hard to shoot yourself in the foot. But useMemo is not a silver bullet — sometimes it just introduces more useless work instead of making...
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7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is...
4th Jan 2022
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7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2022
If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is focusing on Python best practices. It’s really important that your code is readable, testable, and maintainable. From picking good variable names, refactoring code that gets repeated...
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How much does the read/write buffer size matter for socket throughput? The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a...
16th Jul 2023
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How much does the read/write buffer size matter for socket throughput?

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2023
The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a simplified model, the time for the system call should be some constant "per-call" time, plus time directly proportional to the number of bytes in the array. That is, the time for each call...
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Some notes on NixOS Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my...
1st Jan 2024
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Some notes on NixOS

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2024
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my continuing experiments with Nix. My motivation for this was that previously I was using Ansible to provision the server, but then I’d ad hoc installed a bunch of stuff on...
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Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
27th Apr 2023
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Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2023
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
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Mounting git commits as folders with NFS Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE filesystem for a git...
4th Dec 2023
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Mounting git commits as folders with NFS

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2023
Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE filesystem for a git repository where all every commit is a folder? It turns out the answer is yes! There’s giblefs, GitMounter, and git9 for Plan 9. But FUSE is pretty annoying to use on Mac – you need to...
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Building a better button in CSS
19th Oct 2016
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Building a better button in CSS

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Oct 2016
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More Everything With AI From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts...
2nd Apr 2023
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More Everything With AI

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Apr 2023
From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. With Copilot, you’re always...
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Behind the Scenes with Two New Salary Transparency Websites On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have...
6th Apr 2023
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Behind the Scenes with Two New Salary Transparency Websites

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2023
On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have launched, built by the creators of Levels.fyi and Layoffs.fyi. I talked to both teams to learn how they were developed.
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Battery Status API: We need to talk
13th Jan 2016
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Battery Status API: We need to talk

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jan 2016
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Moving from Stencil to LitElement Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of...
2nd Mar 2021
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Moving from Stencil to LitElement

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2021
Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of the library won't see much of a difference, this was a major overhaul of Shoelace's internals. Naturally, such a big change brings questions from the community, such as "what were...
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React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the...
19th Apr 2022
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React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2022
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the Backend. Includes links and initial draft at the bottom.
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Substack vs Africa The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging...
30th Jul 2024
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Substack vs Africa

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jul 2024
The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging and online writing was dead, superseded by YouTube, Substack came along and solved the problems of discovery and monetisation. Their feed and recommendations have allowed many to...
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RobotEra Has Two More Robot Olympic Wins! RobotEra has two more Olympic Medals. This time orange peeling (which PI accomplished but needed an...
6th Apr 2026
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RobotEra Has Two More Robot Olympic Wins!

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2026
RobotEra has two more Olympic Medals. This time orange peeling (which PI accomplished but needed an external tool, which disqualified them) and unlocking a padlock 25% faster than PI’s demonstration.
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Just Build It... After I started at Microsoft in 2016, I built my own HTML portfolio website instead of using a...
2nd Sep 2023
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Just Build It...

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2023
After I started at Microsoft in 2016, I built my own HTML portfolio website instead of using a template. The template I had been using was gorgeous and interactive but I hadn't built it. So I built one. CSS Grid wasn't even fully supported yet and there were fallbacks with...
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About antisocialne.ws
3rd Apr 2012
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About antisocialne.ws

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Apr 2012
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You fail to learn if you don't learn to fail If all your time is spent watching output tokens, where do your input tokens come from? Letting an...
12th Jul 2026
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You fail to learn if you don't learn to fail

from seated.ro [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jul 2026
If all your time is spent watching output tokens, where do your input tokens come from? Letting an agent rip on full auto is basically doom scrolling. Even worse if you're doom scrolling while the agent runs. We humans love frying our dopamine receptors. This feels great until...
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Speeding up code review with `small-change` Imprint’s average engineer is merging 4x more PRs than 2 years ago. Yay. Aggregated behind the...
13 hours ago
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Speeding up code review with `small-change`

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

13 hours ago
Imprint’s average engineer is merging 4x more PRs than 2 years ago. Yay. Aggregated behind the average is something even more interesting: we have two teams that are merging 10x their PRs over that period. One engineer is merging 25x the PRs per week of our average engineer two...
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A few spikes in Pico cos() A picture is worth a thousand LLM prompts: Horizontal value is the input value x for cosf(x),...
15th Aug 2026
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A few spikes in Pico cos()

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Aug 2026
A picture is worth a thousand LLM prompts: Horizontal value is the input value x for cosf(x), ranging from 0 to 2π. The orange line shows the result of evaluating cosf(x), which looks exactly as expected. The blue line shows the time it took to evaluate cosf(x) for each x, in...
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An Efficient Multi-Stage Build for Python Django in Docker We’ve recently begun dockerizing our applications in an effort to make development and deployment...
21st Jun 2020
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An Efficient Multi-Stage Build for Python Django in Docker

from home automation - Tinker, Tamper, Alter, Fry [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Jun 2020
We’ve recently begun dockerizing our applications in an effort to make development and deployment easier. One of the challenges was establishing a good baseline Dockerfile which can maximize the benefits of Dockers caching mechanism and at the same time provide minimal...
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Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet “OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios,...
2nd Sep 2022
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Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2022
“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios, and now you want to talk about building a reliable network out of… USB drives?” Well, yes. In fact, I’ve already done it. What is sneakernet? Normally, “sneakernet” is a sort of...
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Delightful React File/Directory Structure How should we structure components and other files in our React apps? I've iterated my way to a...
15th Mar 2022
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Delightful React File/Directory Structure

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Mar 2022
How should we structure components and other files in our React apps? I've iterated my way to a solution I'm really happy with. In this blog post, I'll share how it works, what the tradeoffs are, and how I mitigate them.
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I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine
16th Dec 2023
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I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Dec 2023
I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine
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Agents are commoditizing the complement Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code...
3rd Nov 2025
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Agents are commoditizing the complement

from Writing - Andreas Fragner [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Nov 2025
Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code should do. Agents are commoditizing the former, pushing up demand for the latter.
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Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the...
22nd Jan 2010
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Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jan 2010
You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the appropriate section of the page? Pretty slick, right? Here are a couple snippets so you can do the same thing on your own website. Scroll to a specific element # Here's how to...
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You Don’t Need a UI Framework As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap....
3rd May 2022
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You Don’t Need a UI Framework

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2022
As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap. Seems like a great way to outsource design and save a bunch of time, right? In my experience, this is an unrealistic expectation, and things don’t quite work out that way.
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自営業している開発者の事例 ![itnomikainagoya](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVz...
25th Nov 2013
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自営業している開発者の事例

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Nov 2013
![itnomikainagoya](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBaFVsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--0fd0bbea7ce4fe8a41672eaf8df9cc22c297bbb0/itnomikainagoya.jpg) [IT飲み会名古屋](http://www.it-nomikai.jp/nagoya/before-info/...
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Life Check №2 I'm not so sure I like calling these "Life checks"...perhaps going forward I will call them...
9th Sep 2024
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Life Check №2

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Sep 2024
I'm not so sure I like calling these "Life checks"...perhaps going forward I will call them something else. Maybe time to bring back The Web Witch's Grimoire but make it monthly. Much to my dismay, it's already September, and I'm sat here looking back on the last three months...
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on...
3rd Dec 2021
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2021
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like "URL forwarding" through your domain provider could work,...
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States Machine
20th Feb 2020
1

States Machine

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Feb 2020
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Towards Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute This is a chronicle of my experiment where I set out to insert 1B rows in SQLite
17th Jul 2021
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Towards Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jul 2021
This is a chronicle of my experiment where I set out to insert 1B rows in SQLite
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epanet-js epanet-js is a new web application that combines modern web maps with the industry-standard...
3rd Jul 2025
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epanet-js

from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jul 2025
epanet-js is a new web application that combines modern web maps with the industry-standard EPANET hydraulic simulation algorithm. It’s for people planning and updating water utility systems: connecting pipes and pressures and figuring out what will happen. It’s a problem area...
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A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
14th Jan 2024
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A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jan 2024
Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
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TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
16th Aug 2021
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TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Aug 2021
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
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Learning Gears > Translations welcome! (Português)
19th Apr 2019
1

Learning Gears

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2019
> Translations welcome! (Português)
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AI is making me paranoid about contributions
18th Feb 2026
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AI is making me paranoid about contributions

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Feb 2026
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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...
31st Dec 2016
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Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2016
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...
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Questionable Advice: Is there a path back from CTO to engineer? I received this question in the comments section of my piece on The Twin Anxieties of the...
29th Jul 2022
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Questionable Advice: Is there a path back from CTO to engineer?

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29th Jul 2022
I received this question in the comments section of my piece on The Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum, and figured I might as well answer it. It definitely isn’t a question I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about or anything. 🥰 As a former CTO coming off a...
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Thoughts on Framework Churn I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they...
16th Nov 2023
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Thoughts on Framework Churn

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Nov 2023
I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they save time. They help you build things faster. Yes, there are costs associated with frameworks later on, especially as new versions come out and your app instantly feels like...
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AI Flame Graphs Imagine halving the resource costs of AI and what that could mean for the planet and the industry --...
28th Oct 2024
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AI Flame Graphs

from Brendan Gregg's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Oct 2024
Imagine halving the resource costs of AI and what that could mean for the planet and the industry -- based on extreme estimates such savings could reduce the total US power usage by over 10% by 20301. At Intel we've been creating a new analyzer tool to help reduce AI costs called...
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How we&#x27;re trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve...
3rd May 2014
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How we&#x27;re trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2014
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a while now”. It’s about 3.5 years
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What I learned from a Taipei alley I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy...
15th May 2018
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What I learned from a Taipei alley

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th May 2018
I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy schedule, it wasn't like my usual travels abroad for fun, it felt more like a work trip. Still, even if I'd been there purely for vacation, I would've wanted to try a different mode of...
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Validating URLs and email addresses in PHP This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var()...
18th Sep 2013
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Validating URLs and email addresses in PHP

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Sep 2013
This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var() function, it's actually very easy and doesn't require regular expressions. The following wrapper functions force a true boolean response, so you can use them safely in your logic. Email...
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An algorithm for shuffling playlists
22nd Jul 2023
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An algorithm for shuffling playlists

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jul 2023
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Browser font rendering inconsistencies 22 June 2020 I was working on a project that required me pulling up the developer tools in different...
22nd Jun 2020
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Browser font rendering inconsistencies

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2020
22 June 2020 I was working on a project that required me pulling up the developer tools in different browsers against my personal website when I opened up Safari and noticed how drastically different the title of my page was rendering. It was extremely bold in Safari compared to...
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Every Frame Perfect A while ago I was reading about Wayland and this quote stuck with me: A stated goal of Wayland is...
13th Jun 2026
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Every Frame Perfect

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jun 2026
A while ago I was reading about Wayland and this quote stuck with me: A stated goal of Wayland is “every frame is perfect”. And I think this is a goal we should all aspire to. Wayland is talking about the technical side of things (modern GPU stacks are very complex and Wayland is...
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New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your phone Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your...
21st Jul 2018
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New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your phone

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Jul 2018
Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your phone We take our phones everywhere and trust them with a lot of sensitive information, but have we put enough thought into how to secure them? Liz and Geoffrey discuss different...
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Some terminal frustrations A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I...
5th Feb 2025
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Some terminal frustrations

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2025
A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I asked: What’s the most frustrating thing about using the terminal for you? 1600 people answered, and I decided to spend a few days categorizing all the responses. Along the way I learned that...
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Animated Pride Flags Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll...
6th Jun 2023
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Animated Pride Flags

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2023
Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll learn how to build an animated wavy pride flag using CSS keyframes and linear gradients. We'll also see how to make it dynamic using React. 🏳️‍🌈
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What we lost when we lost comments Comments require commitment, but they’re worth it.
2 weeks ago
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What we lost when we lost comments

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2 weeks ago
Comments require commitment, but they’re worth it.
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Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration
1st Feb 2018
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Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2018
Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration
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The Residents - Commercial Album Videos for many brilliant one minute songs
2nd Nov 2025
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The Residents - Commercial Album

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2nd Nov 2025
Videos for many brilliant one minute songs
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Committing to creativity The fine line between commitment and motivation
5th Aug 2026
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Committing to creativity

from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Aug 2026
The fine line between commitment and motivation
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My Wikipedia Entry For Trapeze Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia. It sure...
24th Oct 2023
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My Wikipedia Entry For Trapeze

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24th Oct 2023
Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia. It sure seems like a long time ago.
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Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my...
1st Jun 2023
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Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2023
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
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Close Access Denial I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for...
1st Oct 2023
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Close Access Denial

from Lennart Koopmann (KJ5KRF) [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2023
I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for what its WiFi functionality does. The fact that it looks at not only WiFi but also Ethernet data does not help with that problem. If I have a minute to explain it, it’s no problem...
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An Intro to Trigonometric CSS Functions While perusing the December 2022 post from web.dev about what's new in the web platform, the...
4th Jan 2023
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An Intro to Trigonometric CSS Functions

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2023
While perusing the December 2022 post from web.dev about what's new in the web platform, the addition of Trigonometric CSS functions in Firefox caught my eye. Geometry and trigonometry were my two best math areas in school (I am not an Algebra person and generally did not enjoy...
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How to integrate Fathom Analytics into your Remix App When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your...
5th Dec 2022
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How to integrate Fathom Analytics into your Remix App

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2022
When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your website visitors in order to enhance their experience. In this guide, we will go over the steps of integrating Fathom Analytics into a Remix application. Creating a site in Fathom...
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What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to? ---
3rd Feb 2018
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What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to?

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2018
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Proof Bitcoin is Overhyped BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin...
9th Jul 2014
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Proof Bitcoin is Overhyped

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2014
BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin transactions per day](https://blockchain.info/en/charts/n-transactions), I was flabbergasted: **there are only about 60,000 transactions per day.** I graphed the number relative to [the...
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When you should and shouldn't use React While very popular, React is not always the best web framework to use. In this article, we go over...
27th Aug 2021
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When you should and shouldn't use React

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Aug 2021
While very popular, React is not always the best web framework to use. In this article, we go over when to use React and when not to.
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Buffer's investor update on COVID-19 impact and approach Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Ever since the world got turned upside down by...
8th Apr 2020
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Buffer's investor update on COVID-19 impact and approach

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2020
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Ever since the world got turned upside down by COVID-19, it’s been “business as unusual” for everyone – Buffer included. I sent this update out to Buffer’s investors one week ago. I hesitated on whether
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