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What to do when iCloud is stuck on uploading items
I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second...
over a year ago
I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second Brain](https://www.swyx.io/obsidian-brain), and twice now I've seen iCloud get corrupted into a really bad state. I also [back up everything to github](https://github.com/sw-yx/brain), so I dont really experience much data...
Tinker, Tamper,...
KY-040 Rotary Encoder with Linux on the Raspberry Pi
For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a...
over a year ago
For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a numerical value. So I bought some rotary encoders off Amazon.If you search the Internet for information/tutorials on how to use a “KY-040” rotary encoder with Linux and the Raspberry...
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Disabling Comments in WordPress
Disabling Comments in WordPress
2020-12-28
I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and...
over a year ago
Disabling Comments in WordPress
2020-12-28
I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future and previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down.
Back...
Steve Klabnik
Shoes 4 work is starting: get involved!
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
The early bird sees the sunrise
I’ve found that you eventually get bored or at least used to every form of material trapping you can...
a year ago
I’ve found that you eventually get bored or at least used to every form of material trapping you can buy. Cars, watches, cameras, computers, whatever. It’s not that fancy stuff stops being nice, but it does stop being wow. That’s the essence of the hedonic treadmill. But do you...
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter in 2023
The articles you enjoyed most this year, my personal favorites, and a recap of an unusually...
a year ago
The articles you enjoyed most this year, my personal favorites, and a recap of an unusually turbulent year in tech.
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The chatbot creator
Back in the day my mother created and ran a math tutoring service for underserved communities in...
a year ago
Back in the day my mother created and ran a math tutoring service for underserved communities in South Africa called Dr Math. It was serving tens of thousands of students until bureaucracy shut the project down.
I decided to rekindle it using GPT4 as a socratic tutor and WhatsApp...
ntietz.com blog
What I tell people new to on-call
The first time I went on call as a software engineer, it was exciting—and ultimately...
3 months ago
The first time I went on call as a software engineer, it was exciting—and ultimately traumatic.
Since then, I've had on-call experiences at multiple other jobs and have grown to really appreciate it as part of the role.
As I've progressed through my career, I've gotten to help...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build a community around your SaaS
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post How to build a community around your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I always wrap Context.Provider and useContext
React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container...
over a year ago
React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container / child component APIs (think <RadioGroup /> + <RadioButton />). Unfortunately, out of the box Context comes with a limiting and not very convenient API. In most cases, I choose...
Alex Meub
How to Add IPv6 Support to CloudFront and S3 Websites
If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have...
over a year ago
If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have it configured to support IPv6. This means that visitors won’t be able to access your content with IPv6-only enabled which is not good. On top of that, I think its important to...
Josh Comeau's blog
Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid
Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is...
over a year ago
Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is also one of the trickiest. In this tutorial, I break down how to build the "full-bleed" layout using CSS Grid.
A Beautiful Site
Redirecting to and from the www subdomain with .htaccess
Here are a few snippets that will come in handy if you ever need to redirect www.example.com to...
over a year ago
Here are a few snippets that will come in handy if you ever need to redirect www.example.com to example.com or vice versa. There are a number of similar methods out there, but I prefer these as you don't need to modify anything between development and production.
#...
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Pensieve: 10 Mar 2024 - Band of Brothers
Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum...
9 months ago
Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum call where we made some concessions. I wish he were better able to take things off my hands but also I need to step up
David Heinemeier...
Basecamp turns 20
On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was built to solve...
10 months ago
On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was built to solve our own problems running client projects as an agency where we found email alone to be lacking. The first version was really just the basics: Messages, todo lists, milestones. We...
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Betwixt Reason and Result
I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling...
over a year ago
I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling International](https://reservations.hostellingtoronto.com/iqreservations/asp/IQHome.asp), highly recommend for solo travel, I have stayed in SF, LA, NY, PHL, TO, NZ and more I probably forget) where a cute...
Epic Web Dev
Auto Layout in Figma (tip)
Figma's Auto Layout feature makes designing layouts feel more like building with Flexbox.
5 months ago
Figma's Auto Layout feature makes designing layouts feel more like building with Flexbox.
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
over a year ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Will AI kill blogging?
It may feel to some that blogging is under threat by the likes of ChatGPT and other large language...
a year ago
It may feel to some that blogging is under threat by the likes of ChatGPT and other large language models. It’s so easy to generate decent-enough writing that many professional writers are quickly having to change the way they operate. On top of that, I’ve had to update Bear’s...
Copper • A blog...
The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs
One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
over a year ago
One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise.
I had to get my...
James Vaughan's blog
Counting Usernames from Malicious Login Attempts
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Web standards are just "minor details"
A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He...
over a year ago
A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He obtained a position as a junior project manager for a web consulting firm in Atlanta. Their work is very professional and their designs are great, but it was immediately evident...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2024
Last month’s ware was internals from a VCH-1006 passive hydrogen maser. KE5FX has published a great...
7 months ago
Last month’s ware was internals from a VCH-1006 passive hydrogen maser. KE5FX has published a great write-up about the unit, its history, and how it was repaired. I’ll give the prize to Hessel. The guess given was about as close as anything I could have done myself — a pretty...
Blog System/5
To C or not to C
That's the dilemma at Twitter over the weekend
10 months ago
That's the dilemma at Twitter over the weekend
Irrational...
Video of Using LLMs in your product.
A month ago, I wrote up some notes on
using LLMs in your product,
and yesterday I got to present an...
6 months ago
A month ago, I wrote up some notes on
using LLMs in your product,
and yesterday I got to present an iteration on those notes to
the folks at the Sapphire Venture’s 2024 Hypergrowth Engineering Summit.
If you’re interested, you can watch a recording of my talk on Youtube.
There’s...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Single Line Comments in CSS
Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found...
a year ago
Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found himself missing some of the ergonomics from Sass.
Having mostly abandoned Sass on personal projects, I was curious what he felt was missing.
He mentioned nesting media queries,...
Max Countryman
Value Modes and Mud Balls
In developing software products, we're often accustomed to prioritizing incremental delivery. This...
a year ago
In developing software products, we're often accustomed to prioritizing incremental delivery. This is usually a good way to mitigate the risk of working on the wrong thing. However, sometimes our problems don't fit neatly into accretive methodologies and we need to consider other...
Making software...
Introducing PageRoast
Introducing PageRoast
2021-03-11
Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
over a year ago
Introducing PageRoast
2021-03-11
Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask?
Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Introduction to javascript iterables, iterators, and generators
A quick intro to javascript newly introduced generators and iterators concepts and how they work...
over a year ago
A quick intro to javascript newly introduced generators and iterators concepts and how they work with other javascript features.
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #21: Avoiding the "Product Death Cycle"
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap & Industry Towns, 2020
In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas,...
over a year ago
In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas, capital, service providers, and companies tend to have strong network effects that support startup formation and success in a given industry. For example, Silicon Valley, London,...
blag
Recurse Center Day 2: BTree Node
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to...
over a year ago
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to write as much as possible, log my daily learnings and activities. But, I also don't want to spend time on grammar and prose, so I am publishing all the posts which usually I'd have...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python
We are due for our next live session.
a month ago
We are due for our next live session.
Maggie Appleton
How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Recording: Live Coding a Bytecode Compiler for Python
Yesterday we concluded the live session on live coding a bytecode compiler and interpreter (VM) for...
a week ago
Yesterday we concluded the live session on live coding a bytecode compiler and interpreter (VM) for a tiny subset of Python in Python. Even though I said I will not be sharing the recording, I think the session went quite smooth so I am sharing it here.
ntietz.com blog
Personnel update
This is inspired by receiving a "personnel update" when a friend was fired many years ago. It felt...
3 months ago
This is inspired by receiving a "personnel update" when a friend was fired many years ago. It felt coldly impersonal for such a deeply personal event, so I imagined what it would be like if the same approach were taken to other deeply personal events.
* * *
Subject: Personnel...
Daniel Marino
Building a Random Music Sequencer with Preact
As I've composed music for video games, something that has piqued my interest is the concept of...
over a year ago
As I've composed music for video games, something that has piqued my interest is the concept of randomly generating music. Not that this is a new concept, but I was curious to see what I could come up with. Go ahead and check out the RMG-2021.
Design
I love how sequencers look...
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Introducing Notebooks for PostHog
Today we’ve released a major change, dubbed PostHog 3000, which updates the look and feel of PostHog...
a year ago
Today we’ve released a major change, dubbed PostHog 3000, which updates the look and feel of PostHog dramatically. You can read all about what’s…
Steve Klabnik
Hypermedia API reading list
over a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2023
2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately.
It was only in...
11 months ago
2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately.
It was only in December that I had meaningful time for writing.
In the 2022 review I set a few targets for the blog in 2023:
Targets for 2023
❎ Publish at least 40 posts
14
✅ Reach at least 150k...
macwright.com
Increasingly miffed about the state of React releases by
I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s...
11 months ago
I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s not good for every problem, I think React is a good solution to many problems. I think the React team has good intentions. Even though React is not a solution to everything, it a...
HTMHell
HTML: The Bad Parts
by Mayank
You've probably heard statements along the lines of "HTML is already accessible by...
a year ago
by Mayank
You've probably heard statements along the lines of "HTML is already accessible by default" or "You don't need to reinvent this perfectly fine HTML control". I consider these to be more of general claims rather than universal truths. It's extremely important for web...
bt RSS Feed
Very Basic Form Styling
Very Basic Form Styling
2019-11-13
Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I...
over a year ago
Very Basic Form Styling
2019-11-13
Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I love tinkering with pre-existing logins / sign up pages and I’ve also open sourced a minimal CSS form-styling plugin: Normform. While simple CSS plugins like these can be helpful, I...
Liz Denys
Podcast submission notes
Getting started
Web stuff & RSS
Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to....
over a year ago
Getting started
Web stuff & RSS
Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to. You need to generate podcast-specific RSS: start by reading Apple's requirements and looking at the RSS feeds of other podcasts.
Some specific RSS fields
<itunes:type>: You need...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization
Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
over a year ago
Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
TokyoDev
Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook
At the beginning of the year, I bought a new M2 MacBook Air for ¥220,800 (about 1,500 USD) on Apple...
a year ago
At the beginning of the year, I bought a new M2 MacBook Air for ¥220,800 (about 1,500 USD) on Apple Japan’s online store. Thanks to me not bothering to set up Find My, it’s now a worthless brick. To add insult to injury, I had paid ¥77,619 (500 USD) to have said brick returned to...
Irrational...
Eng org seniority-mix model.
One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company...
a month ago
One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company maintains their current margin
and grows revenue at 25-30%, or they instead grow slower and increase their free cash flow year over year.
In many organizations, engineering costs have a...
Josh Collinsworth
Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can't agree on Tailwind
It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do. I think what we...
a year ago
It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do. I think what we actually disagree on isn’t the details of this (or any) specific software; it's in what we value, and how we each define assets and liabilities.
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap, June 2021 (Almost Post-Pandemic Edition)
I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the...
over a year ago
I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the last 8 months the number of tech startups worth $1B or more ("unicorns") has grown by 43% from 487 Unicorns to 701. This is almost double the 361 unicorns in June 2019
HTMHell
Adding Complementary Performance Data to Your Site
Getting performance data from real users can transform assumptions about how a user experiences a...
over a year ago
Getting performance data from real users can transform assumptions about how a user experiences a site into objective, actionable information.
In the last two years, there has been increased awareness of web performance thanks to Google's Core Web Vitals (CWV) metrics. These...
Julia Evans
Introducing "Implement DNS in a Weekend"
Hello! I’m excited to announce a project I’ve been working on for a long time:
a free guide to...
a year ago
Hello! I’m excited to announce a project I’ve been working on for a long time:
a free guide to implementing your own DNS resolver in a weekend.
The whole thing is about 200 lines of Python, including implementing all of the
binary DNS parsing from scratch. Here’s the...
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API Design: Modifying Defaults
> This is a quick note on a API Design. I hope to make this an ongoing series.
over a year ago
> This is a quick note on a API Design. I hope to make this an ongoing series.
Confessions of a...
Recording: How Hyper-Threading Works — A Microarchitectural Perspective
Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous...
5 months ago
Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous multithreading) implementation in Intel’s x86 processors.
HTMHell
Never underestimate HTML
by Lara Aigmüller
“HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”,...
12 months ago
by Lara Aigmüller
“HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”, “Updating the UI should be a simple task once the backend is ready.”—these and other similar statements reached my ears time and again during my career as a web developer.
Very often,...
Steve Klabnik
I'm deleting my Facebook tonight
over a year ago
David Gerrells
programming, i hate it
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
4 months ago
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Send love to open-source projects on Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day is coming up and we'd like to share our love for the open-source community that...
over a year ago
Valentine's Day is coming up and we'd like to share our love for the open-source community that helps power PostHog! Here's how: For every GitHub star…
Joel Gascoigne
How we handle team emails at our startup: Defaulting to transparency
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It’s an exciting...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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It’s an exciting time for Buffer. Toby Osbourn [https://twitter.com/tosbourn]
just joined and we’re now 16 people. Toby joined us as a Backend Hacker
[http://jobs.bufferapp.com/backend-hacker],...
Steve Klabnik
Looking back at Rust in 2018
over a year ago
blag
Using uWSGI with Python 3
Simple steps to get uWSGI up and running in Python 3.
over a year ago
Simple steps to get uWSGI up and running in Python 3.
A Beautiful Site
When To Create CSS Parts
I was recently asked a really good question on Twitter: when shouldn't an element be a CSS...
over a year ago
I was recently asked a really good question on Twitter: when shouldn't an element be a CSS Part?
I've spent a lot of time building web components, most of which are intended for design systems, and my answer is pretty straight-forward.
Every part you expose is an API that you're...
Liz Denys
Leave icebreakers to strangers, or how to spin friends and introduce people
My favorite way to meet new people is through my existing set of friends. There are many benefits,...
over a year ago
My favorite way to meet new people is through my existing set of friends. There are many benefits, the obvious one being that my friends tend to have great taste in people.
But I'm also at least a little bit awkward. Despite consciously thinking about asking thoughtful versions...
Epic Web Dev
The Drawbacks of Bundling All CSS Files Together (tip)
Discover the drawbacks of bundling all CSS files together and why it's recommended to use separate...
a year ago
Discover the drawbacks of bundling all CSS files together and why it's recommended to use separate style sheets for better control and performance.
Joel Gascoigne
Want to be happy and successful? Bring happiness to others
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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For the last 3...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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For the last 3 months I’ve regularly been meeting startup founders here in Hong
Kong to try and help them with the biggest challenges they have. It’s been truly
enjoyable and fascinating. I feel...
Making software...
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer
2022-12-08
Introduction
I've made the switch...
over a year ago
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer
2022-12-08
Introduction
I've made the switch to Alpine Linux as my main laptop/desktop hybrid
workstation and I love it - warts and all. This post will follow my process building my Alpine Linux "installer" I used for this...
ntietz.com blog
Affirmations for bloggers
Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to.
Many of us start blogs, but most of...
6 months ago
Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to.
Many of us start blogs, but most of those blogs lie abandoned or sporadically updated.
It's okay if you start blogging and figure out it's not really for you.
But there are also some common issues that block people...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity
Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add...
over a year ago
Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add authentication and serverless functionality and get up and running incredibly quickly with Netlify - here's how.
Words and Buttons...
Yet another alternative to floating point numbers
This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input...
over a year ago
This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input error but keep computational error under control as well.
Ink & Switch
Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system
In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles...
over a year ago
In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles with trusted digital relationships.
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML vs TypeScript: comparing their type systems
A type is a labeled set of constraints that can be imposed on a value. A type system analyses values...
over a year ago
A type is a labeled set of constraints that can be imposed on a value. A type system analyses values in a piece of code, and validates them against their types. JavaScript has a type system, but it’s dynamic. This is one of the key advantages of using the language, providing an...
Tinloof - Blog
Managing Tinloof-powered websites
If your website was built by Tinloof, you should be able to self-manage it without any guide.
We...
a year ago
If your website was built by Tinloof, you should be able to self-manage it without any guide.
We wrote this article just to make sure you're not missing out on any feature that helps you manage your website more effectively.
Navigating the CMS
alexwlchan
A day out at the Bure Valley Railway
Last October, I had a day trip to the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway in north...
over a year ago
Last October, I had a day trip to the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway in north Norfolk.
I came across it quite by chance – I was driving through Aylsham to get to a B&B, and I spotted a sign pointing to the railway.
I checked the website for a timetable,...
Josh Comeau's blog
Local Testing on an iPhone
Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may...
over a year ago
Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may not be the most exciting topic I've written about, but it's probably one of the most useful!
Ferd.ca
A Commentary on Defining Observability
2024/03/19
A Commentary on Defining Observability
Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great...
9 months ago
2024/03/19
A Commentary on Defining Observability
Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great article titled Redefining Observability. In it, she covers competing classical definitions observability, weaknesses they have, and offers a practical reframing of the concept in the...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Five Tricks for Debug-Logging in JavaScript
Cheer up, today is a quick tip day. No rants, no motivation, no existentialism — just a few simple...
over a year ago
Cheer up, today is a quick tip day. No rants, no motivation, no existentialism — just a few simple tricks you can use right now.
We'll be talking about console.log and friends for debugging javascript, mostly in the browser. If you don't use devtools debugger — try it, but I'm...
Vadim Kravcenko
✍️ Being an Amateur
When you’re an expert, you’re so far from the realities of the beginners that your advice might not...
over a year ago
When you’re an expert, you’re so far from the realities of the beginners that your advice might not be useful. […]
The post ✍️ Being an Amateur appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
The next version of PHP may very well be 7
We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact,...
over a year ago
We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact, the project was so plagued with problems that in 2010, it was abandoned. It almost felt like PHP would be perpetually stuck at version 5.
Except now there's talk about another major...
A Smart Bear
More money if you do, more money if you don't
A business always takes more money than you expect, even when you take this fact into account....
a year ago
A business always takes more money than you expect, even when you take this fact into account. Here's why.
macwright.com
The S&P 500 is largely a historical artifact
I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t...
8 months ago
I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t totally wrong, which is why this post is short. But, if you have the goal of just “investing in the market,” there’s a better option for doing that: a total market index. For...
Vadim Kravcenko
My coworker rewrote all my code, what should I do?
Dear Robert, The short answer is — stop getting attached to your code. Now lets continue to a more...
10 months ago
Dear Robert, The short answer is — stop getting attached to your code. Now lets continue to a more detailed […]
The post My coworker rewrote all my code, what should I do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
bt RSS Feed
Clickable Links Inside XML
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I...
over a year ago
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
Joel on Software
Welcome, Prashanth!
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
over a year ago
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
Liz Denys
Recruitment is hard.
Recruitment is one of those things that everyone does, but everyone seems to want to do better. It's...
over a year ago
Recruitment is one of those things that everyone does, but everyone seems to want to do better. It's also the kind of thing that is challenging: it's complicated, it's tiring, and it's personal.
Even if the {company, organization, student group} you're recruiting for has...
Charles Chen
The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 2
The second part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
over a year ago
The second part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog's recommended reading for startup teams
The PostHog team includes a number of voracious readers — we even have our own book club ! — so...
a year ago
The PostHog team includes a number of voracious readers — we even have our own book club ! — so here’s a collection of the books our teams recommend…
Julia Evans
Mounting git commits as folders with NFS
Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE
filesystem for a git...
a year ago
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...
Seán Barry
Useful reusable functions I use in (almost) every Meteor application
Some core functions I find myself reusing in almost every Meteor.js application I build.
over a year ago
Some core functions I find myself reusing in almost every Meteor.js application I build.
Epic Web Dev
Good Code, Testable Code (article)
Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for...
6 months ago
Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for effective testing.
Irrational...
Useful tradeoffs are multi-dimensional.
In some pockets of the industry, an axiom of software development is that deploying software quickly...
11 months ago
In some pockets of the industry, an axiom of software development is that deploying software quickly is at odds with thoroughly testing that software. One reason that teams believe this is because a fully automated deployment process implies that there’s no opportunity for manual...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Raspberry Pi 400: first impressions
<![CDATA[I bought a lovely little computer, a Raspberry Pi 400, and two accessories, a 64 GB Samsung...
a year ago
<![CDATA[I bought a lovely little computer, a Raspberry Pi 400, and two accessories, a 64 GB Samsung Pro Endurance microSD card to hold the file system and a very cheap Full HD webcam for video calls.
Raspberry Pi 400, Samsung Pro Endurance 64 GB microSD card, and Full HD webcam...
David Heinemeier...
Paranoia and desperation in the AI gold rush
I've ever seen so much paranoia in technology about missing out on The Next Big Thing as with AI....
7 months ago
I've ever seen so much paranoia in technology about missing out on The Next Big Thing as with AI. Companies seem less excited about the prospects than they are petrified that its going to kill them. Maybe that fear is justified, maybe it's not, but what's incontestable is the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Don't Rush to Simplicity
Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the...
over a year ago
Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the complexity?
Vadim Kravcenko
Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation
Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers...
over a year ago
Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers that they neglect actually running their […]
The post Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
blag
Recurse Center Day 16: Open Source
merged few open pull requests on my projects
over a year ago
merged few open pull requests on my projects
Tony Finch's blog
Some subtleties of keycaps
There’s plenty of material online about the bewildering variety of keycaps,
eg,
eg,
but I learned a...
a year ago
There’s plenty of material online about the bewildering variety of keycaps,
eg,
eg,
but I learned a few things that surprised me when working on Keybird69.
nightfox
I found out that the remaining stock of Matteo Spinelli’s
NightFox keyboards were being sold off cheap because of...
A Smart Bear
Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual
Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How...
over a year ago
Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How can we leverage the wisdom of the crowd, while ensuring that decisions and responsibilities continue to reside with an individual?
HTMHell
Revisiting Fundamentals - Semantic lists for Improved Accessibility
by Winnie Bosibori
Lists are one of the fundamental semantic HTML configurations that, when...
a year ago
by Winnie Bosibori
Lists are one of the fundamental semantic HTML configurations that, when implemented appropriately can enhance accessibility.
HTML Lists Refresher
Whenever I visit any website, I have formed the habit of checking for any accessibility issues and delving deeper...
Alex MacCaw
Artificial Knowledge Creation
How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know...
11 months ago
How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know so far.
David Heinemeier...
The last RailsConf
Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started...
7 months ago
Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started with something like 400-600 attendees at the inaugural conference in Chicago in 2006, then just kept doubling year over year, as Rails went to the moon. If memory serves me right,...
A Beautiful Site
Getting duplicate ids in an HTML document
I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task,...
over a year ago
I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task, but unfortunately, I didn't find anything out there that fit the bill.
I did find a couple functions that returned the duplicates, but they didn't include the first occurrence (I...
samwho.dev
API Design: Optional Parameters
When we write functions, it's common to want to give the user options to suit a range of use-cases....
over a year ago
When we write functions, it's common to want to give the user options to suit a range of use-cases. There are good ways and bad ways of doing it, and this post is going to explore them.
›
Guiding principles
API design is hard. A good API needs to be:
Easy to change without...
A Beautiful Site
But we haven't even mastered Acid2!
Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second....
over a year ago
Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second. Firefox finally nailed it down with version 3. Even Micrsoft, back in December, announced that IE8 passes the Acid2 Test. Web browsers have certainly come a long way towards standards...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Knowledge Laundering
I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took...
a year ago
I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took notes on — and this excerpt talking about large language models (LLMs) stood out to me:
Why give somebody credit for the lines of code you’ve adapted for your own project when you...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs Redshift
We've written extensively comparing ClickHouse to other analytical databases, including Google...
a year ago
We've written extensively comparing ClickHouse to other analytical databases, including Google BigQuery , Elastic , and Apache Druid . Most of…
HTMHell
Template for accessibility guidelines
by Steve Frenzel
Foreword
This template is opinionated and intended as a starting point for those...
a year ago
by Steve Frenzel
Foreword
This template is opinionated and intended as a starting point for those who want to define how accessibility is dealt with in their company. It does not matter whether your title is developer, designer, project manager or something else.
I created it...
Liz Denys
Gogo Yubari's meteor hammer as a purse
So I made a purse shaped like the Gogo Yubari's meteor hammer for a Kill Bill themed party...
The...
over a year ago
So I made a purse shaped like the Gogo Yubari's meteor hammer for a Kill Bill themed party...
The spherical shape comes from quilt batting stuffed between the beach ball style outside and a stiff dodecahedron lining. The body is hand-painted, punched out vinyl over black...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds
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over a year ago
macwright.com
Recently
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new?
Over at the Val Town Blog, I...
7 months ago
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new?
Over at the Val Town Blog, I wrote about how searching source code is a pretty
hard problem. It was pretty
well-received: I confirmed that yes, it’s a pretty hard problem. We’re really
trying not to write a search...
General Robots
So You Want To Do Robots, Part 2: What do you need to invent?
I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the...
a year ago
I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the engineering lead of the product/applications group until me and my team was impacted by the recent Alphabet layoffs. This series is an attempt to share almost a decade of lessons learned so...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Laying the foundation of WebCard
<![CDATA[The initial Interlisp code of WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project, defines the new type...
2 months ago
<![CDATA[The initial Interlisp code of WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project, defines the new type "Web" of NoteCards card. It's the first step for extending NoteCards to visit websites.
The main code is in the function WCD.CreateWebCardType, a thin wrapper around the...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Become the master of your eslint with no-restricted-syntax
The other day I was doing my normal thing trying to force import '*.css' to be the last import in a...
over a year ago
The other day I was doing my normal thing trying to force import '*.css' to be the last import in a file, which ensures a predicatbale CSS order. I spent hours looking for a eslint plugin to do that, but with little luck. Without getting into too much details:
The built-in...
A Smart Bear
Who's lying?
Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because...
over a year ago
Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies.
Nelson's Weblog
AI enhanced search
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day.
All of these use an AI to...
3 months ago
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day.
All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential
feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research.
I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
swyx's site RSS Feed
React Single File Components Are Here
React has long eschewed convention in favor of the extreme flexibility of JS. It is time for the...
over a year ago
React has long eschewed convention in favor of the extreme flexibility of JS. It is time for the next level in React authorship formats.
Cognitive...
Fine-tuning Alpaca 30b 4-bit on consumer hardware - background
I want to write about fine-tuning Alpaca 30b 4-bit on consumer hardware, but before I can, I'll need...
a year ago
I want to write about fine-tuning Alpaca 30b 4-bit on consumer hardware, but before I can, I'll need to give a little background. My basic goal was to figure out "what's the most powerful AI I can customize and run on my shiny new 4090."
The answer right now is LLaMA 30b....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Putting your Keyboard on Steroids with Karabiner Elements
I did a livestream with John Lindquist from Egghead.io today, and he blew my mind on how much...
over a year ago
I did a livestream with John Lindquist from Egghead.io today, and he blew my mind on how much mileage you can get out of your keyboard!
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 essential PostHog apps for new users
PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they...
over a year ago
PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they can do almost anything — and they’re hard to…
markround.com
Haiku Package Management
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have...
a year ago
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason...
alexwlchan
Going between Finder and the Terminal
Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the...
3 months ago
Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the Terminal’s command line and the Finder’s GUI.
He has some neat ideas, and I particularly like his AppleScript sel for selecting multiple items in Finder.
I’ve written a couple of similar...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.29.0
Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New...
over a year ago
Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New features include multivariate feature flags, private projects and DAU/WAU/MAU graphs.
Making software...
CSS Video Backgrounds
CSS Video Backgrounds
2018-04-16
With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3,...
over a year ago
CSS Video Backgrounds
2018-04-16
With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3, developers now have the ability to support background videos (mp4 support only - at the time of this article) with pure CSS.
Example:
.video-background {
background-image:...
Dan Slimmon
Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres
Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by...
a year ago
Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by Postgres. There was this one class of query that would get slower and slower over the course of about an hour. The exact pathology is a tale for another time, but the investigation led...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
SemVer: The Tricky Parts
Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood...
over a year ago
Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood semver, but that illusion disappeared once I started maintaining libraries myself. Semver has tricky edge cases where it's unclear what the new version number should be:
Should you...
The Changelog
Asynchronous Email: Exim over NNCP (or UUCP)
Following up to yesterday’s article about how NNCP rehabilitates asynchronous communication with...
over a year ago
Following up to yesterday’s article about how NNCP rehabilitates asynchronous communication with modern encryption and onion routing, here is the first of my posts showing how to put it into action. Email is a natural fit for async; in fact, much of early email was carried by...
Coding Horror
I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is...
over a year ago
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I've lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I've voted in every presidential election since 1992,
ntietz.com blog
Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests
I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage.
We used tools like a...
10 months ago
I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage.
We used tools like a code coverage ratchet to ensure that the test coverage always went up and never down.
This had a few effects.
One of them was the intended effect: we wrote more tests.
Another was...
macwright.com
Hooking up search results from Astro Starlight in other sites
At Val Town, we recently introduced a command-k menu, that “omni” menu that sites have. It’s pretty...
8 months ago
At Val Town, we recently introduced a command-k menu, that “omni” menu that sites have. It’s pretty neat. One thing that I thought would be cool to include in it would be search results from our documentation site, which is authored using Astro Starlight. Our main application is...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Stumped with URL validation in WebCard
<![CDATA[I started working on URL validation in WebCard and soon bumped into a bug.
When creating a...
2 months ago
<![CDATA[I started working on URL validation in WebCard and soon bumped into a bug.
When creating a new Web card, WebCard prompts for a URL to store in the card. I wrote the predicate WCD.ValidURLP to do some minimal validation and make sure the input resembles a URL. For...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Self Provisioning Runtime
Improvements in DX in both programming languages and cloud infrastructure will eventually converge...
over a year ago
Improvements in DX in both programming languages and cloud infrastructure will eventually converge in a single paradigm, where you truly "just write business logic" and the platform mostly figures out the rest.
Computer Things
Logic for Programmers now in early access!
I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in...
5 months ago
I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in early access, it's almost 20,000 words, has 30 exercises, and covers a wide variety of logic applications:
Property testing
Functional correctness and contracts
Formal...
Josh Comeau's blog
Why My Blog is Closed-Source
In our community, it's so common for developer projects to be open-source. I'm breaking with this...
over a year ago
In our community, it's so common for developer projects to be open-source. I'm breaking with this trend for my blog, but I have good reasons! In this article, I'll share my reasoning, as well as a workaround in case you _really_ want to see the source. If you're considering...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and...
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
over a year ago
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
Tony Finch's blog
getopt() but smaller
The other day I learned about the Rust crate
lexopt which describes itself as,
A pathologically...
a month ago
The other day I learned about the Rust crate
lexopt which describes itself as,
A pathologically simple command line argument parser.
Most argument parsers are declarative: you tell them what to parse,
and they do it. This one provides you with a stream of options and
values and...
Epic Web Dev
Replace Remix's unstable_parseMultipartFormData with @mjackson/form-data-parser (tip)
Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or...
3 months ago
Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or @mjackson/form-data-parser with custom file size validation.
Epic Web Dev
Tailwind CSS Color Tokens (tutorial)
4 months ago
Words and Buttons...
Simple image vectorization
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out...
over a year ago
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out of it. The algorithm describes shows how bilinear interpolation, polynomial approximation, differential analysis, and iterative algorithms work together to solve a practical...
A Smart Bear
Distinguishing constructive criticism from bad business advice
Beware of advice that tries to change who you are. True wisdom guides you to a better version of...
a year ago
Beware of advice that tries to change who you are. True wisdom guides you to a better version of yourself.
ntietz.com blog
Running an Effective Book Club at Work
Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for...
over a year ago
Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for learning.
And they're great for group learning, too!
We've run a book club at work a few times.
Some sessions were more successful than others.
The main way our book clubs faltered...
A Smart Bear
Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile
Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in...
10 months ago
Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in your career, startup, and life.
Oxide Computer...
Hubris and Humility
When we started Oxide, we knew we were going to take a fresh look at the entire system. We knew, for...
over a year ago
When we started Oxide, we knew we were going to take a fresh look at the entire system. We knew, for example, that we wanted to have a true hardware root of trust and that we wanted to revisit the traditional BMC. We knew, too, that we would have our own system software on each...
The Pragmatic...
Should you optimize for all-cash compensation, if possible?
Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how...
a year ago
Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how much of their total compensation is stock. What are the approaches to take?
A Smart Bear
p-Hacking your A/B tests
Half of your "successful" A/B tests are false-positives. This is why, and how to fix it.
a month ago
Half of your "successful" A/B tests are false-positives. This is why, and how to fix it.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Allure of Local-First Sync Engines
On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React...
9 months ago
On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React what REST APIs are to local-first sync engines.
jQuery was manual DOM manipulation. You were in charge of writing the instructions to create, read, update, and delete DOM...
TokyoDev
Tech Meetups in Tokyo
Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into...
a year ago
Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into attending tech meetups.
Tech meetups are events held online and offline, and attending them is a great way to form connections and establish yourself in the tech community. It...
bt RSS Feed
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode
The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode
2021-04-12
After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal...
over a year ago
The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode
2021-04-12
After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal blog, I decided to take a closer look at how I was supporting dark mode for my visitors. I was using the proper CSS query to target those who had system-wide dark mode enabled, but I...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
Alex Meub
The Holy Grail of IE Testing
I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This...
over a year ago
I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This setup allows you to test authentic versions of IE6, IE7, and IE8 without the need to boot up virtual machines. It also allows you to have a debug bar in each of these versions so...
Nelson's Weblog
Noom is exploitative
I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy
program. The app is more like CBT...
a year ago
I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy
program. The app is more like CBT for upselling customers than CBT for
weight loss. Now I’m hoping they’ll delete my sensitive medical data and
refund the $3 they tricked me out of. (They did, quickly in...
Alice GG
Create a presskit in 10 minutes with Milou
Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software.
To make the journalist’s...
6 months ago
Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software.
To make the journalist’s job easier, it’s a good idea to put together a press kit.
The press kit should contain all the information someone could want to write an article about your product,
as well as...
Joel Gascoigne
Use the happiness advantage
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Looking back to...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Looking back to the start of Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], one of the things I
think may have helped a lot with gaining traction fast was to involve users in
the validation process and tell these...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.2.0
Big new integration - PostHog now has a library for iOS! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update...
over a year ago
Big new integration - PostHog now has a library for iOS! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. Release notes PostHog iOS Library…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Domain Sins of My Youth
I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project.
At the...
a year ago
I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project.
At the checkout screen, I realized it would cost me $105 to renew this domain for 5 years.
Why 5 years?
Right now my disposition is: if I plan on keeping a domain for as long as possible I...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.31.0
PostHog 1.31.0 introduces Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped overall user...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.31.0 introduces Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped overall user experience on Insights and 350+ more improvements and fixes.
A Beautiful Site
Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and...
over a year ago
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) don't always download properly in Internet Explorer. In fact, IE tends to see them as ZIP files and forces their extension to change to .zip when you select download. This...
HTMHell
Forced Colors Mode Futility
by Matthias Zöchling
figure{margin-bottom:2.4rem}figure img{aspect-ratio:4;border: 6px solid...
2 weeks ago
by Matthias Zöchling
figure{margin-bottom:2.4rem}figure img{aspect-ratio:4;border: 6px solid #000}figcaption,sup,.highlight,section:has(#resources) span,section:has(#fns)...
ntietz.com blog
It's easier to code review Rust than Python
On Monday, I was talking to a friend about programming and I mentioned that I prefer to review Rust...
a year ago
On Monday, I was talking to a friend about programming and I mentioned that I prefer to review Rust code over Python code.
He asked why, and I had some rambling answer, but I had to take some time to think about it.
It boils down to the fact that I can give a much better review...
Posts on Nikita...
Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it.
Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
Elad Blog
MegaCycles in Tech & Crypto
Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology...
over a year ago
Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology or platform would emerge, there would be rampant investment and speculation, a few strong hypergrowth survivors would emerge and most of the rest of the new startups would...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Swyx.io 2023 rewrite
Discussing the 2023 migration of swyx.io to the SvelteKit 1.0 and the swyxkit template
a year ago
Discussing the 2023 migration of swyx.io to the SvelteKit 1.0 and the swyxkit template
ntietz.com blog
[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier
I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at...
over a year ago
I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at first -- I'm a big fan of Schneier's posts online, but I found this randomly at the library and I was hoping not to be disappointed. In the end, it was well worth the read.
The book...
David Heinemeier...
X celebrates 60% savings from cloud exit
Musk has taken a cleaver to the costs and complexity at X. It hasn't always been pretty, but it sure...
a year ago
Musk has taken a cleaver to the costs and complexity at X. It hasn't always been pretty, but it sure has been effective, and in the process, he's proven his detractors wrong time and again. Not only has the site stayed up, despite hysteric proclamations that it would crater soon...
Alice GG
Writing GDScript with Neovim
Neovim is by far my favorite text editor.
The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation...
a month ago
Neovim is by far my favorite text editor.
The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation are what keep me productive in my daily programming.
In an earlier post, I explained how I configure it into a minimalist development environment.
Today, I will show you how to use...
macwright.com
Recently
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
3 months ago
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories.
Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
Elad Blog
Hiring Executives & Bad Advice
When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of...
over a year ago
When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of customer demand and experience a Cambrian explosion of internal org complexity simultaneously. Things will initially seem to just truck along as usual, and then suddenly everything at...
General Robots
Writing Libraries for AIs to Use
Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers...
a year ago
Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.” but in the future we have a third category. I think that programs and libraries (and programming languages?) that lend themselves to effective AI assistance will win...
A Beautiful Site
IE8 burns the Acid 2 test
An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as...
over a year ago
An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as Microsoft is showing more and more progress towards incorporating web standards into Internet Explorer, even though IE7 has remained dormant since it's release back in October 2006.
The...
Dan Slimmon
Platform teams don’t need to act like companies
Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search...
a year ago
Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search Team provides a Search service and its “customers” are the teams whose code consumes that service. The Developer Productivity Team’s product is a suite of tools for managing local...
Irrational...
Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers.
Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike
about the Principal Engineer...
a month ago
Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike
about the Principal Engineer role](https://qconsf.com/presentation/nov2024/ambiguous-roles-and-ambiguous-problems-navigating-life-principal-engineer).
You can also watch the video on YouTube.
The content itself...
Liz Denys
Earl Grey infused white chocolate ganache latte syrup, inspired by Voltage Coffee
I'm not frequently a fan of flavored lattes. I like an occasional pumpkin spice latte near...
over a year ago
I'm not frequently a fan of flavored lattes. I like an occasional pumpkin spice latte near Halloween, an occasional vanilla latte if it's exceptionally well made, but I usually just stick with the simple unflavored latte. Furthermore, I'm definitely not a fan of mochas: I'd...
A Beautiful Site
Using the classList API
jQuery makes it easy to add, remove, and toggle classes on various elements. It's too bad this stuff...
over a year ago
jQuery makes it easy to add, remove, and toggle classes on various elements. It's too bad this stuff wasn't built into JavaScript. But wait — it is now!
What your looking for didn't exist until IE10, but it's been in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera for some time now. It's...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Working on legacy code
Take your time
If you rush, you might miss some implications of your changes and cause more work in...
a year ago
Take your time
If you rush, you might miss some implications of your changes and cause more work in the long run. So, do it right the first time.
Secondly, since you’ll be in the code anyway, take some time to ensure that it will survive unchanged for another stretch of...
A Smart Bear
Fermi ROI: Fixing the ROI rubric
“Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail...
over a year ago
“Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail to produce the best answers, and fail to create explanations that help others understand why they’re the best answers. This system works.
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Introducing Phil Leggetter, our new head of Developer Relations
We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog....
over a year ago
We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog. Developer relations sits at the intersection of…
The Pragmatic...
Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?
One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman...
7 months ago
One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman software engineer.” As intimidating as these sound: what if it’s more marketing than reality?
Tinloof - Blog
SEO best practices on Sanity
When we build a website with Sanity, we configure SEO best practices to rank higher on search engine...
over a year ago
When we build a website with Sanity, we configure SEO best practices to rank higher on search engine result pages.
Marco.org
Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any...
over a year ago
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any correspondence with him.
But losing him was devastating — not just to my world, but the world.
He was a sort of virtual father figure: I was always hoping that maybe Steve would...
Making software...
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
2021-09-23
I have an old 2011 MacBook Air...
over a year ago
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
2021-09-23
I have an old 2011 MacBook Air that is running the latest version of macOS Catalina thanks to the very wonderful Catalina Patcher by dosdude1. This project has made it possible for me to run and test some of...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Expose Platform APIs Over Wrapping Them
From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js:
One of the primary differences...
8 months ago
From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js:
One of the primary differences between enzyme and Testing Library is that while enzyme gave you a wrapper with a bunch of (overly) helpful (dangerous) utilities for interacting with rendered elements, Testing...
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
over a year ago
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
David Heinemeier...
Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no...
4 months ago
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Green flags for investable founders
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and...
11 months ago
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and dedication.
Elevator pitch in LinkedIn tagline
A founder who is all in is constantly selling. That means their tagline will:
a) be for their company, not for them
b) be the sales pitch, not a...
David Heinemeier...
Happiness is never having to ask for permission
If there’s one value Jason and I put above all else in business, it's independence. The freedom to...
11 months ago
If there’s one value Jason and I put above all else in business, it's independence. The freedom to make our own choices, good or bad, without ever having to ask anyone for permission. Not from investors, not from naysayers, not from platform gatekeepers. It’s why we’ve built our...
bt RSS Feed
Skip to Content Button
Skip to Content Button
2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility...
over a year ago
Skip to Content Button
2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility is the “keyboard-only” audit. This is where you test navigating through your entire site without the use of a mouse, but instead rely solely on tabbing through your...
bt RSS Feed
Designers Need Thicker Skin
Designers Need Thicker Skin
2017-07-10
I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about...
over a year ago
Designers Need Thicker Skin
2017-07-10
I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about “drama” within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
Making software...
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
2021-01-19
It's no secret that I'm passionate about open...
over a year ago
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
2021-01-19
It's no secret that I'm passionate about open source software, but I'm also extremely adamant about protecting the privacy of all users across the web. So when I decided to implement analytics on my own personal website, I ended...
Blog System/5
Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines
The little annoyances that alerted us developers of performance problems
a year ago
The little annoyances that alerted us developers of performance problems
Confessions of a...
Substack has Failed Indian Creators
Dear subscribers, This is not my usual deep technical post, it’s going to be a rant about the...
5 months ago
Dear subscribers, This is not my usual deep technical post, it’s going to be a rant about the problems I (and many other Indian writers) have faced in monetizing their writing on Substack, even after being here for years, bringing in thousands of new readers and producing...
A Smart Bear
JIT selection from independent streams: An alternative to the “big backlog” of work
We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of...
over a year ago
We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of the future, however this confuses “prioritization” with “work-planning,” and forces the comparison of un-comparable things. Here’s how to solve those problems.
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Firebase Analytics in 30 Seconds
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over a year ago
alexwlchan
Preserving Dates during JSON serialisation with vanilla JS
For my sins, I’ve spent a lot of the last year dealing with datetime-related bugs.
One of our...
a year ago
For my sins, I’ve spent a lot of the last year dealing with datetime-related bugs.
One of our longest-standing issues has been around sending Date values via JSON – JavaScript will happily encode a Date value in JSON, but it gets encoded as a string, and there’s no easy way to...
ntietz.com blog -...
Terminology isn't universal
A little while back, I wrote that we shouldn't say "auth" but should use other terms instead.
I...
3 weeks ago
A little while back, I wrote that we shouldn't say "auth" but should use other terms instead.
I stand by my argument in general, but it also has another side to it: my suggested terminology makes sense in some domains, but not in all domains.
And that's because terminology...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
My Hacktoberfest 2019
This year I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. I became aware of it last year and...
over a year ago
This year I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. I became aware of it last year and really wanted to participate, but I had…
A Beautiful Site
Dynamic Slots
Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with...
a year ago
Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with them? Here's an interesting technique to use (or abuse) slots in your custom elements. I've been calling the pattern dynamic slots.
Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at how...
Vadim Kravcenko
Is development the right career for me?
Hello dear reader, first off all, I want to acknowledge the weight of the question you’re grappling...
a year ago
Hello dear reader, first off all, I want to acknowledge the weight of the question you’re grappling with. It’s one […]
The post Is development the right career for me? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Josh Collinsworth
How to Check Uniqueness in an Array of Objects in JavaScript
Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all...
over a year ago
Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all object keys (IDs) are unique, and how to find non-unique values.
Josh Comeau's blog
Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing...
2 weeks ago
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
ntietz.com blog
Go slow to go fast
A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness.
I've long...
10 months ago
A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness.
I've long been an endurance athlete, and it's time to lean into my overall fitness and strength.
Part of this is to be healthy and live a long life.
But honestly? More of it is a desire to...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2023
The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the...
a year ago
The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the general category of the ware first, David was the first to give the exact model. Usually I award the prize to the first person to give an exact, correct model number and fall back to...
A small freedom area...
Improving color quantization heuristics
In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was
improved in FFmpeg in order...
a year ago
In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was
improved in FFmpeg in order to make nice animated GIF files. For some
reason, to this day this is one of my most popular article.
As time passed, my experience with colors grew and I ended up being...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Growing my team 4x has been a pain. Can we do better?
My name is Vladimir, and I'm an engineering manager of a team building a banking app. Following the...
8 months ago
My name is Vladimir, and I'm an engineering manager of a team building a banking app. Following the success of our core banking product, we've decided to expand to other financial services. In the last four months my team has grown 4x, going from a 4-person team to 4 teams...
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The Early Days of GitLab - A Chat with Sid Sijbrandij
It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is...
over a year ago
It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is that many of the most successful founders will find…
the singularity is...
A Place for Me
Have all the jobs been fake for years? Read this, a NASA critique from 1992.
Basically society is...
a month ago
Have all the jobs been fake for years? Read this, a NASA critique from 1992.
Basically society is run by useless people making work for other useless people so that together they can all alleviate their deep concern about not having a place in society.
Elon has a bigger tent of...
HTMHell
A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be?
by Rian Rietveld
It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage.
Fun...
3 weeks ago
by Rian Rietveld
It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage.
Fun fact: the alt text of the image inside a link, will be added to the link text.
The problem with linking a logo is that it serves 2 purposes:
a logo, that tells you which site you are...
dthompson
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...
10 months ago
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...
A Smart Bear
The Lindy Effect on startup potential
On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here,...
6 months ago
On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here, but 10x?
PostHog's RSS Feed
How (and why) our marketing team uses PostHog
We learned an interesting fact recently: only 20% of our users track their marketing website and ...
over a year ago
We learned an interesting fact recently: only 20% of our users track their marketing website and their product using PostHog. This is our fault. We…
Irrational...
No Wrong Doors.
Some governmental agencies have started to adopt No Wrong Door policies, which aim to provide...
7 months ago
Some governmental agencies have started to adopt No Wrong Door policies, which aim to provide help–often health or mental health services–to individuals even if they show up to the wrong agency to request help. The core insight is that the employees at those agencies are far...
Nelson's Weblog
APIs for content sites must be free
Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company
like Reddit or Twitter derives...
a year ago
Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company
like Reddit or Twitter derives most of its value from content that users
write for free then it must provide APIs for anyone to download and
manipulate that content. While an interactive API that enables...
Joel Gascoigne
Raising funding as a first-time founder
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over a year ago
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I’ve been fortunate enough to meet with some outstanding first-time
entrepreneurs on a few different days during this week. In almost every case I
can really feel the passion and determination...
Code Of Honor
Tough times on the road to Starcraft
I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me...
over a year ago
I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts about writing more reliable...
A Beautiful Site
On Using Web Component Libraries
We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has...
over a year ago
We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has components, Vue has components, Angular has components…it's just how we've always used them.
Because of that, people tend to refer to Lit and FAST Element as frameworks, but they’re not....
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Super Easy Automated Scraping with AWS Amplify
A tutorial on data scraping with AWS Amplify
over a year ago
A tutorial on data scraping with AWS Amplify
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Classification Learning & Decision Trees
The simplest form of Classification algorithm
over a year ago
The simplest form of Classification algorithm
ntietz.com blog
Distractions Cause Bad Code
We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our...
over a year ago
We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our digital society now is set up to allow us to focus for mere minutes at a time, since we are in an attention economy and the sole objective of companies is to capture more of our time....
David Heinemeier...
There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last...
a year ago
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last year. The market as a whole is up, and if you're in the whole market, you're benefitting. But all of that upside, basically, belongs to just a handful of mega tech companies.
This...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to stop thinking as an engineer and start thinking like a business man?
Uff, this is a tough one. I can say for sure — it’s possible, everything can be learned. I do...
a year ago
Uff, this is a tough one. I can say for sure — it’s possible, everything can be learned. I do […]
The post How to stop thinking as an engineer and start thinking like a business man? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
alexwlchan
Snippets to manage albums in Photos.app
Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that...
a year ago
Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that involves moving photos in and out of albums.
The tool I’ve built is very specific to my workflow and unlikely to be immediately useful to anyone else, but I thought some of the code for...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Whisper to Transcribe Podcasts
You want
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator
2023-07-21
Often times when you save or export photos...
a year ago
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator
2023-07-21
Often times when you save or export photos from iOS to iCloud they often render themselves into heif or heic formats. Both macOS and iOS have no problem working with these formats, but a lot of software programs will not even...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: CPython Memory Management Internals
Last week we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython’s main bytecode interpreter...
7 months ago
Last week we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython’s main bytecode interpreter (the VM), and the response from the attendees has been very encouraging. Next, I want to talk about how CPython implements memory management in its runtime. Most programming...
Nelson's Weblog
Toto C5 Washlet power usage
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having
water for washing is great. But I...
a year ago
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having
water for washing is great. But I don’t love some details, see notes
below. Mostly I wanted to share how much power the thing uses.
About 80 Watt-hours a day, or an average of 3 watts. Note this is
without the seat...
Patrick Kayongo
What Are Software Developers For
At the time of writing this, the perceived potential for AI based tools for software development is...
9 months ago
At the time of writing this, the perceived potential for AI based tools for software development is at an all time high. Devin, claims to offer a “fully autonomous AI software engineer”. Other tools like Marblism have less ambitious claims but can still create a working web...
Confessions of a...
All Set! Looking Under the Hood of Python's Set Data Structure
Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
6 months ago
Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
bt RSS Feed
Easy Toggle Switches
Easy Toggle Switches
2019-02-18
Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
over a year ago
Easy Toggle Switches
2019-02-18
Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles.
This is overkill. You can...
macwright.com
Code-folding JSX elements in CodeMirror
This came up for Val Town - we implemented code folding in our default editor which uses CodeMirror,...
9 months ago
This came up for Val Town - we implemented code folding in our default editor which uses CodeMirror, but wanted it to work with JSX elements, not just functions and control flow statements. It’s not enough to justify a module of its own because CodeMirror’s API is unbelievably...
Tony Finch's blog
Resurrected link log
After an extremely long hiatus, I have resurrected
my link log.
As well as its web page,...
8 months ago
After an extremely long hiatus, I have resurrected
my link log.
As well as its web page, https://dotat.at/:/, my link log is shared via:
an Atom feed https://dotat.at/:/feed.atom
the fediverse https://mendeddrum.org/@fanf
Dreamwidth...
Joel Gascoigne
Beware of the social ideas
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over a year ago
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Last time I wrote about how to start your startup in 4 steps
[https://joel.is/post/5507881155/how-to-start-your-startup-in-4-steps], and the
first step I mention is to “Have an idea”. This can...
Irrational...
Building personal and organizational prestige
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
a year ago
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many...
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey
I've launched the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey. With this survey, I intend to paint...
over a year ago
I've launched the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey. With this survey, I intend to paint a picture of what life is like for international developers here, both to help people considering making the move here, and also for those already living here to better understand...
Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono Font Variant Popularity
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley...
over a year ago
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley Mono Typeface. I am truly humbled by the feedback, interest and people that have keen interest in typography.
Berkeley Mono Font Variants
Quick update on people asking what's the...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eventually consistent plain text accounting
.title { text-wrap: balance }
Spending for October, generated by piping
hledger → R
Over the past...
a month ago
.title { text-wrap: balance }
Spending for October, generated by piping
hledger → R
Over the past six months, I’ve tracked my money with hledger—a plain text
double-entry accounting system written in Haskell. It’s been
surprisingly painless.
My previous attempts to pick up...
A Smart Bear
Procrastinate for Success!
Procrastination can be a useful tool. You can't do everything. So don't.
5 months ago
Procrastination can be a useful tool. You can't do everything. So don't.
Max Countryman
Indie Web Stack of the Future
You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a...
a year ago
You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a few things that make indie development different and we should design our stack around our unique goals. Let's explore an ideal web stack we can build the future on.
Jibran’s Perspective
I have not failed enough
I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast...
11 months ago
I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast and started to think about how often I had failed in the past few years. The first answer was - not too much. I couldn’t think of too many instances of where I had “failed”.
This was...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
It’s the future — you can stop using JPEGs
For the past several months, after leaving Amazon I have been hard at work building a software...
a year ago
For the past several months, after leaving Amazon I have been hard at work building a software product. I anticipate probably another 1-…
TokyoDev
The Best Resources for Entrepreneurial Developers
My background is as a developer, but I've been running my own business since 2008. For advice about...
over a year ago
My background is as a developer, but I've been running my own business since 2008. For advice about business, I've always found other entrepreneurial developers are the best source, as they tend to have faced similar challenges to my own. If you're a developer starting your own...
Liz Denys
Sea strands V60-style coffee cone, 2024
Rising sea levels / eroding beaches / between saltwater and the sea strands / melting ice caps
6 months ago
Rising sea levels / eroding beaches / between saltwater and the sea strands / melting ice caps
The History of the...
Cool URLs Mean Something
Earlier this month, MTV News abruptly pulled their site off the web without warning, eliminating a...
5 months ago
Earlier this month, MTV News abruptly pulled their site off the web without warning, eliminating a virtual archive of pop […]
The post Cool URLs Mean Something appeared first on The History of the Web.
Making software...
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
2021-12-06
I recently decided to switch my personal, static...
over a year ago
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
2021-12-06
I recently decided to switch my personal, static site's hosting from Netlify to sourcehut pages. The process went fairly smoothly with only a couple minor hiccups; nothing rage-inducing. After everything was up and running smoothly, I...
HTMHell
The Implied Web
by Halvor William Sanden
People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get...
a year ago
by Halvor William Sanden
People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get attention and herd people towards clicks increase cognitive effort because they obscure themselves and reduce interfaces to clickable surfaces.
The implied web is based on the idea...
David Heinemeier...
Could Apple leave Europe?
Apple's responses to the Digital Market Act, its recent 1.8b euro fine in the Spotify case, and Epic...
9 months ago
Apple's responses to the Digital Market Act, its recent 1.8b euro fine in the Spotify case, and Epic Sweden's plans to introduce an alternative App Store in the EU have all been laced with a surprising level of spite and obstinacy. Even when Steve Jobs was pulling power moves...
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The Upload (short story)
My first attempt at bringing back the short story in ~30 years.
8 months ago
My first attempt at bringing back the short story in ~30 years.
The Pragmatic...
Code Review on Printed Paper: an Excerpt from the Twitoons Comic Book
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every...
a year ago
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. In this article, we cover two out of seven topics from today’s
TokyoDev
Discount coupons for babysitters in Japan via a government subsidy
In 2016, the government started giving [financial support to parents who use...
a year ago
In 2016, the government started giving [financial support to parents who use babysitters](https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/headline/taikijido/pdf/h28yosan_sankou5.pdf). Babysitters are very expensive in Japan for most families, so it’s usually not an option for many parents. But at...
A Beautiful Site
Convert arrays to CSV with PHP
The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values)...
over a year ago
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 .= ",";
...
Making software...
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names
2021-02-25
It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog,...
over a year ago
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names
2021-02-25
It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog, but for good reason - I've been working on a handful of side projects. I plan to drip-feed release these projects over time, but for today I'm announcing ThriftyName.
What is...
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Scraping my Twitter Social Graph with Python and Selenium
Using python and selenium to find better follows on Twitter
over a year ago
Using python and selenium to find better follows on Twitter
macwright.com
Remix notes
Val Town switched to Remix as a web framework a little over a year ago. Here are some...
9 months ago
Val Town switched to Remix as a web framework a little over a year ago. Here are some reflections:
The Remix versioning scheme is a joy. They gradually roll out features under feature flags, so you have lots of time to upgrade.
Compared to what seems like chaos over in...
General Robots
The Mythical Non-Roboticist
What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework...
9 months ago
What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
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Feedback Ladders
A post for the Netlify blog on how we did Code Reviews during my recent product rotation.
over a year ago
A post for the Netlify blog on how we did Code Reviews during my recent product rotation.
A Smart Bear
The three kinds of leverage that anchor effective strategies
Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best...
a year ago
Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best when durable. Here's how to create leverage.
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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
over a year ago
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
A Smart Bear
The Pattern-Seeking Fallacy
We humans are terrible at discerning patterns from randomness, and in marketing data we unwittingly...
9 months ago
We humans are terrible at discerning patterns from randomness, and in marketing data we unwittingly find "insights" that are actually noise. Here's how to fix that.
markround.com
A Splinter In Your Mind
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be...
over a year ago
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis helped make sense of a lot things and has given me a greater insight into my “way of being in the world”. Whilst there are times I...
Alex Meub
Install JSDOM On Windows
JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation...
over a year ago
JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation of the DOM that makes it super easy to work with pages retrieved from the Internet. Unfortunately, JSDOM relies on a node package called Contextify that is difficult to get working...
HTMHell
#11 The trigram for heaven
Bad code
<span class="nav-toggle"> ☰ Menu </span>
Issues and how to fix them
A screen reader may...
over a year ago
Bad code
<span class="nav-toggle"> ☰ Menu </span>
Issues and how to fix them
A screen reader may announce this as trigram for heaven menu, because ☰ is the unicode character for the trigram for heaven.
The purpose of the icon is decorative, it should be hidden from screen...
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In-depth: PostHog vs Hotjar
Want to understand the difference between Hotjar and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Hotjar is a...
a year ago
Want to understand the difference between Hotjar and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Hotjar is a user research tool that offers session replays…
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Netlify Year One - 360 Review
I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year...
over a year ago
I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) Recap. That post was entirely me looking back at myself. It's helpful to see what others said about me at my review.
markround.com
Apollo Vampire V1200 Review
After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2...
over a year ago
After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2 accelerator! Since then, my Amiga has had a new lease of life so I thought I’d write an update covering all the stuff I would have wanted to know while I was waiting for the package to...
Alex Meub
My Mac OSX Setup
Application Installs
Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge...
over a year ago
Application Installs
Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge step above MacPorts and Fink when it comes to installing and managing open source software.
Spectacle is a free window resizing utility that gives you keyboard shortcuts to resize...
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Array 1.33.0
Introducing a full multivariate Experimentation suite, granular permissions on dashboards, Altinity...
over a year ago
Introducing a full multivariate Experimentation suite, granular permissions on dashboards, Altinity Cloud support for ClickHouse, configuring your instance from the PostHog UI and 290+ improvements/fixes.
The Pragmatic...
Cruel Changes at Twitter
The speedrun for a complete culture overhaul at Twitter continues, and may conclude just two weeks...
over a year ago
The speedrun for a complete culture overhaul at Twitter continues, and may conclude just two weeks after Elon Musk bought the company. Managers will have 20+ reports and are expected to code at least 20% of the time.
bt RSS Feed
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the...
over a year ago
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the “Lite” variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean.
Please note that while I...
exist
Turing Machine Halting in Lean
over a year ago
Identity Designed
OOP
Designed by Futura, Mexico City.
over a year ago
Designed by Futura, Mexico City.
Darek Kay
GitHub developer statistics
Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me...
over a year ago
Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me to check my own impact as an employee:
1002 pull requests shipped
3062 pull requests reviewed
5 years (since migrating to GitHub Enterprise)
LOC (lines of code) is a terrible...
Renegade Otter
Death by a thousand microservices
The Church of Complexity
There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to...
a year ago
The Church of Complexity
There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to the project manager how an overly complicated maze of
microservices works in order to get a user’s birthday - and fails to do so anyway. The scene accurately describes the...
The Pragmatic...
The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
The bank serving half of all VC-funded startups in the US and UK collapsed more or less overnight....
a year ago
The bank serving half of all VC-funded startups in the US and UK collapsed more or less overnight. How did it play out, and what are the next steps for startups?
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Lessons in Competitive Comms from the Plaid-Stripe Kerfuffle
Now that the dust has settled on the Plaid-Stripe thing it's time to recap lessons learned.
over a year ago
Now that the dust has settled on the Plaid-Stripe thing it's time to recap lessons learned.
Joel Gascoigne
Make progress faster by cooperating: 4 tips to try with your co-founder or co-worker
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
For a number of...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
For a number of years now, I’ve found that I generally always had a “training
partner” for my entrepreneurial goals. A few years ago, this was my great friend
Khuram...
samwho.dev
Practical Problems with Auto-Increment
In this post I'm going to demonstrate 2 reasons I will be avoiding
auto-increment fields in Postgres...
a year ago
In this post I'm going to demonstrate 2 reasons I will be avoiding
auto-increment fields in Postgres and MySQL in future. I'm going to prefer using
UUID fields unless I have a very good reason not to.
›
MySQL <8.0 auto-increment ID re-use
If you're running an older version of...
MMapped blog
A swarm of replicated state machines
over a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Treats from git's contrib tools🍭
.title { text-wrap: balance }
The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here,...
11 months ago
.title { text-wrap: balance }
The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe
even experimental ones
Junio C Hamano, git/contrib/README
Git bundles handy tools along with its source repo. They live in a
directory named contrib—short for
contributed...
Acko.net
Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams
Hassle free GLSL
I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side...
over a year ago
Hassle free GLSL
I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side project to come up with a composable and incremental way of driving WebGPU and GPUs in general.
#pragma import { getColor } from 'path/to/color'
void main() {
gl_FragColor =...
The Changelog
Pipe Issue Likely a Kernel Bug
Saturday, I wrote in Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them about an issue where a...
over a year ago
Saturday, I wrote in Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them about an issue where a certain pipeline seems to have a deadlock. I described tracing it into kernel code. Indeed, it appears to be kernel bug 212295, which has had a patch for over a year that has never...
Josh Comeau's blog
Animating the Unanimatable
An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items...
over a year ago
An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items in a list swap positions.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.42.0: Get beta features via our roadmap!
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
over a year ago
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! 1.42.0 update guide for self-hosted…
Patrick Kayongo
Super Apps vs WhatsApp
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
over a year ago
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
Confessions of a...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Profilers in Python
Learn what profilers are, when to use them and quick demo of few profilers for Python
6 months ago
Learn what profilers are, when to use them and quick demo of few profilers for Python
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Building software to last forever
I recently received the following email regarding Bear:
Hi,
I am a huge fan and love the service as...
over a year ago
I recently received the following email regarding Bear:
Hi,
I am a huge fan and love the service as it is.
However, I am curious how the continuation of the service is guaranteed.
- Joe
This is a great question, and one I have put a lot of thought into, even going so far as...
Stephen Wolfram...
Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…
The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a...
a year ago
The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a human could do. But then ChatGPT burst onto the scene. And suddenly we realized that an AI could write a passable human-like essay. So now it’s natural to wonder: How far will this...
Blog System/5
How "new type" helps avoid production outages
My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author...
9 months ago
My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author briefly touches upon the “new type” idiom, its typical implementation in Rust, and then proceeds to propose a better alternative. But the question arises: why should you care?
alexwlchan
Splitting a class into balanced groups
Earlier this week, my mum sent me an interesting problem.
She’s got a class of 12 students, who are...
a year ago
Earlier this week, my mum sent me an interesting problem.
She’s got a class of 12 students, who are going to meet over 7 sessions.
In each session, they’re going to split into 3 or 4 groups, and she wants to find an even distribution of groups – each person gets to work with...
A Smart Bear
Finding Fulfillment
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a...
a year ago
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a framework I’ve used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
Words and Buttons...
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you...
over a year ago
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
Daniel Marino
Using the p5play JavaScript Game Engine
I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly...
11 months ago
I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to use. It was designed to be intuitive for beginners, such as students. In under a half hour I had created some common basic mechanics! Check it out:
See the...
alexwlchan
Doodling with the Mac’s command icon
The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years.
It was chosen by...
5 months ago
The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years.
It was chosen by legendary icon designer Susan Kare, who picked it from a symbol dictionary – this shape was already being used in Sweden to highlight an interesting feature on a map.
It’s an...
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A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
over a year ago
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
Elad Blog
AI Platforms, Markets, & Open Source
What does the future market structure look like for AI foundation and API companies? How does OSS...
a year ago
What does the future market structure look like for AI foundation and API companies? How does OSS play a role in a world of ever scaling models?
Liz Denys
Butternut squash with cinnamon sage brown butter
I don't blog that much about savory food: savory food for me is even more technique-based than...
over a year ago
I don't blog that much about savory food: savory food for me is even more technique-based than recipe-based, so I find it limiting to discuss one dish because it's a particular combination of techniques on a very particular set of ingredients. But I really enjoyed this particular...
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