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How to create an accessible React modal A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the...
1st Apr 2019
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How to create an accessible React modal

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

1st Apr 2019
A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the user can’t interact with the rest of the application. Creating a modal in React is fairly easy. There are dozens of resources that explain how to do so, including the React...
Searching the Creative Internet Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the...
18th May 2018
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Searching the Creative Internet

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

18th May 2018
Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the 1990s. A place where everything was obscure or new. If you saw something mainstream like a Disney princess, it was because someone had taken the time to handcraft an ASCII art...
Taking a break I've been publishing at least one blog post every week on this blog for about 2.5 years. I kept it...
5th May 2025
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Taking a break

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

5th May 2025
I've been publishing at least one blog post every week on this blog for about 2.5 years. I kept it up even when I was very sick last year with Lyme disease. It's time for me to take a break and reset. This is the right time, because the world is very difficult for me to move...
22nd May 2026
What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon? Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
1st Aug 2023
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What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon?

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

1st Aug 2023
Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
A Look at Portland Car2Go Data Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast,...
21st Apr 2014
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A Look at Portland Car2Go Data

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

21st Apr 2014
Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast, cheap and ridiculously convenient; it’s a pretty incredible transportation option. Part of what makes it so great are the apps that give you up-to-date car location and availability...
Barbershop Happy Birthday For Amanda I multitracked 'Happy Birthday' for my friend Amanda Ortmayer's birthday.
14th Mar 2009
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Barbershop Happy Birthday For Amanda

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

14th Mar 2009
I multitracked 'Happy Birthday' for my friend Amanda Ortmayer's birthday.
The time before YC I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company....
1st Sep 2019
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The time before YC

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

1st Sep 2019
I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company. This is us (I'm on the right), just after we got…
Boot.dev Beat. December 2022 I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from...
6th Jan 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. December 2022

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

6th Jan 2023
I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from writing code, which I haven’t done in a long time. It’s good to be back though, and I can’t wait to see you around the Discord community.
Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder We have been interviewing and hiring a pile of engineering directors at Honeycomb lately. In so...
13th Jun 2022
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Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder

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

13th Jun 2022
We have been interviewing and hiring a pile of engineering directors at Honeycomb lately. In so doing, I’ve had some fascinating conversations with engineering managers who have been trying unsuccessfully to make the leap to director. Here is a roundup of some of the ideas and...
Sneaky Header Blocker Trick There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often...
23rd Mar 2026
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Sneaky Header Blocker Trick

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

23rd Mar 2026
There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often reach out, asking how on earth it works. It feels like it defies the rules of CSS! In this blog post, I’ll break down the surprisingly-straightforward implementation so you can...
IPython Startup Files In one of the companies where I worked, I was a part of a pretty small team of five developers. We...
4th Jan 2019
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IPython Startup Files

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

4th Jan 2019
In one of the companies where I worked, I was a part of a pretty small team of five developers. We had a support rota, so each week, one of us was responsible for handling tickets from users. Apart from requesting new features, users often asked for changes in the system that...
Going on maternity leave tl;dr summary # I'm heading out on maternity leave a little earlier than planned. I'm not sure where...
12th Dec 2025
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Going on maternity leave

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

12th Dec 2025
tl;dr summary # I'm heading out on maternity leave a little earlier than planned. I'm not sure where the last eight and a half months have gone but here we are! It's a very weird feeling to be prepping and handing off projects. All of my co-workers have been so lovely and...
10th Jun 2012
Faking 3D Elements with CSS Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that...
29th Apr 2020
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Faking 3D Elements with CSS

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

29th Apr 2020
Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that some of your web elements are 3D can be a fun experiment. I set out to see if I was able to create such an illusion with only 2 HTML elements and as little CSS as possible. This is...
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025 It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for...
4th Feb 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025

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

4th Feb 2025
It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for Boot.dev, and for humanity as a whole.
Reminding folks to confirm their subscription Now you can gently remind your subscribers to confirm their address.
4th Nov 2019
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Reminding folks to confirm their subscription

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

4th Nov 2019
Now you can gently remind your subscribers to confirm their address.
GitHub now has a setting to underline links A public beta was released for GitHub on Friday the 29th. It allows you to apply or remove an...
2nd Oct 2023
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GitHub now has a setting to underline links

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

2nd Oct 2023
A public beta was released for GitHub on Friday the 29th. It allows you to apply or remove an underline effect to links in body content. The link underlines are present in Issue and Pull Request comments, as well as other areas of the site. We are still identifying areas where...
An Interactive Guide to Flexbox When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible...
22nd Nov 2022
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An Interactive Guide to Flexbox

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

22nd Nov 2022
When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the Flexbox algorithm and learn how to do...
CSS: Indenting Text CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
5th Apr 2019
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CSS: Indenting Text

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2019
CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn’t an insult - I’m happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
Staying Ahead of Amazon, in Amazon Treasure Hunt Contest With a simple Man In The Middle (MITM) attack, I tried to cheat(?) one of Amazon India’s contest.
31st Oct 2015
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Staying Ahead of Amazon, in Amazon Treasure Hunt Contest

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Oct 2015
With a simple Man In The Middle (MITM) attack, I tried to cheat(?) one of Amazon India’s contest.
TypeIDs are now the default identifier format API version 2026-01-01 returns prefixed IDs like sub_ and em_ instead of bare UUIDs
1st Jan 2026
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TypeIDs are now the default identifier format

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

1st Jan 2026
API version 2026-01-01 returns prefixed IDs like sub_ and em_ instead of bare UUIDs
I'm doing another Recurse Center batch! Hello! I’m going to do a batch (virtually) at the Recurse Center, starting on Monday. I’ll probably...
6th Nov 2020
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I'm doing another Recurse Center batch!

from Rc-2020 on Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Nov 2020
Hello! I’m going to do a batch (virtually) at the Recurse Center, starting on Monday. I’ll probably be blogging about what I learn there, so I want to talk a bit about my plans! I’m excited about this because: I love RC, it’s my favourite programming community, and I’ve always...
What I'm up to - August 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2025
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What I'm up to - August 2025

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

1st Aug 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - Back to eating solid foods after my jaw surgery. - Playing with gpt-oss on my com...
Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
7th Mar 2025
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Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification

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

7th Mar 2025
A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
Place Your Bets Startups are a sequence of nested bets. Like poker, you’ve got a limited bankroll and imperfect...
18th Dec 2024
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Place Your Bets

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Dec 2024
Startups are a sequence of nested bets. Like poker, you’ve got a limited bankroll and imperfect information. The Market Bet Your foundational bet isn’t just picking a market, it’s betting that you understand how that market will evolve. This bet shapes everything downstream: If...
How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022 We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has (as of v2.3) not shipped...
1st Nov 2022
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How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022

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

1st Nov 2022
We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has (as of v2.3) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all. Googled and found this post which was almost everything I needed, but required some stuff in the comments for it to work.
is there light at the end of the tunnel Is there light at the end of the tunnel? I say yes...or at least sometimes depending on how you look...
11th Apr 2022
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is there light at the end of the tunnel

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

11th Apr 2022
Is there light at the end of the tunnel? I say yes...or at least sometimes depending on how you look at it.
gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA...
8th Mar 2010
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gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing

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

8th Mar 2010
I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA encouraged us to practice creating diagrams for our design project proposals by trying to identify UNIX commands or filesystem structures from our partner's drawings. He claims that...
5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
10th Aug 2020
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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book

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

10th Aug 2020
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning. I was watching the excellent video by...
20th Mar 2023
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Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning

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

20th Mar 2023
It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning. I was watching the excellent video by Andrej Karpathy about how to write a GPT (of which GPT-3 is an example) from scratch, using the paper "Attention is all you need" I implemented it from scratch while watching the...
Nobody Profits Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and...
18th Feb 2025
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Nobody Profits

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

18th Feb 2025
Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and grab. It ain’t no different than smashing a window at Tiffany’s and grabbing merchandise.” - Joe Biden, 46th president of the USA Except it isn’t and Joe Biden is a senile moron....
You can't always fix it I have some weird hobbies, and one of those is opening up the network tab on just about anything I'm...
2nd Mar 2026
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You can't always fix it

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

2nd Mar 2026
I have some weird hobbies, and one of those is opening up the network tab on just about anything I'm using. Sometimes, I find egregious problems. Usually, this is something that can be fixed, when responsibly reported. But over time, I learned a bitter lesson: sometimes, you...
Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course,...
4th Oct 2021
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Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released

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

4th Oct 2021
We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course, written in Go, would be better served if it covered Python instead. After much deliberation, we decided to rewrite the course, and we’re super excited to have now released the...
Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers? TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more...
12th Feb 2025
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Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers?

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2025
TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more Japanese companies we’ve interviewed, the more we’ve realized that a talent shortage is not the only reason for Japanese companies to hire from overseas. There are a host of other...
The $100b Bull Case for Temporal Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it *could* be worth $100b
7th Mar 2022
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The $100b Bull Case for Temporal

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

7th Mar 2022
Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it *could* be worth $100b
Early Stage Company Offsites > this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
6th Oct 2024
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Early Stage Company Offsites

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

6th Oct 2024
> this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
The story of Tupo, my new daily logic puzzle Tupo is my first new game in four years. I'm excited to share it with the world, and to talk about...
5th Oct 2026
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The story of Tupo, my new daily logic puzzle

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

5th Oct 2026
Tupo is my first new game in four years. I'm excited to share it with the world, and to talk about the process behind it.
AI Art is getting better Adobe Firefly Express (beta) whatever “Text to Image” takes the old Colab Notebooks to a new refined...
22nd Jun 2023
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AI Art is getting better

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2023
Adobe Firefly Express (beta) whatever “Text to Image” takes the old Colab Notebooks to a new refined level.However it’s still easy to cherry-pick “good” images for every 10 mediocre or just plain wrong images. Don’t trust the robots. PEACE. T.AKE IT IT ELASY! * All images...
On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself...
19th Apr 2025
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On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment

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

19th Apr 2025
Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself say: I really miss posting on Twitter. I really, really miss it. It’s funny, because Twitter was never not a trash fire. There was never a time when it felt like we were living...
The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
3rd Sep 2021
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The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators

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

3rd Sep 2021
Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator journey.
Stable Fiddusion Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [ ...
1st Oct 2023
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Stable Fiddusion

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2023
Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [ {left: "$$", right: "$$", display: true}, {left: "$", right: "$", display: false}, ]}); }); Frequency-domain blue noise generator In computer graphics, stochastic...
Over-Nesting Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
6th Jan 2019
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Over-Nesting

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

6th Jan 2019
Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I've recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Go's WaitGroup vs JavaScript's PromiseAll In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency...
4th Jun 2020
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Go's WaitGroup vs JavaScript's PromiseAll

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

4th Jun 2020
In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency functions one after the other. For example, if I have a web page that needs to request seven files from the server before it can show the page, I need to asynchronously fetch all those...
2025 Advice to my old selves I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got...
15th May 2025
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2025 Advice to my old selves

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

15th May 2025
I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got the chance to sit and reflect. a lot of things are going well, lots more could be better. I'm the only person responsible for preserving the good and fixing the bad. I'm now back on...
Abstract Syntax Trees by example Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples...
5th Jan 2021
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Abstract Syntax Trees by example

from Mahmoud Felfel's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jan 2021
Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples of how to use it for parsing, generating, and manipulating abstract syntax trees, I'm collecting some here from my own usage of it.
Dotfile Boilerplate Earlier today I made a tweak to one of my ever-growing collection of dotfiles and it reminded me...
10th Aug 2013
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Dotfile Boilerplate

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

10th Aug 2013
Earlier today I made a tweak to one of my ever-growing collection of dotfiles and it reminded me that I’m not too happy with my dotfile’s bootstrap script. The bootstrap file that I have in my repo is from a 2008 blog post and I’ve never been too thrilled with it. The problems my...
1st Dec 2015
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Docember

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

1st Dec 2015
Recently I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense....
1st Sep 2026
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Recently

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

1st Sep 2026
I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense. July and August were filled with bike rides, 5K races, friends in town, life changes and logistics. For a friend's birthday, we rode the rickety Coney Island Cyclone, which was...
19th Apr 2010
GitHub Game Off 2021 Retrospective Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve...
19th Feb 2022
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GitHub Game Off 2021 Retrospective

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

19th Feb 2022
Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve been a part of. I had some lofty goals for this game, and I just about met them all. I’m extremely happy with how the game came out! Like prior games I’ve made, I don’t tend to...
Middle management roles are also a trap. Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles...
8th Aug 2026
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Middle management roles are also a trap.

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

8th Aug 2026
Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles present themselves as easier than moving into a full management role, but the tension between doing the software engineering and engineering management aspects of the role made being...
Navigation updates You asked, and we listened. We've updated the navigation to be more usable.
17th Oct 2020
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Navigation updates

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

17th Oct 2020
You asked, and we listened. We've updated the navigation to be more usable.
When to write strategy, and how much? Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
25th Aug 2024
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When to write strategy, and how much?

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

25th Aug 2024
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy. When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
8th Jan 2025
Using User-Select Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
4th Jun 2019
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Using User-Select

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

4th Jun 2019
Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property? Introducing the CSS property Simply put, the...
Switching to Pelican Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances....
27th Mar 2017
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Switching to Pelican

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

27th Mar 2017
Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances. To simplify my life, I decided to unify them into one content management system instead of keeping that somewhat unwieldly mess around. I had never really put a lot of thought into...
Dispatch 002: Making a new medium and other recaps It’s always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our...
21st Dec 2023
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Dispatch 002: Making a new medium and other recaps

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

21st Dec 2023
It’s always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our work are ongoing journeys. So, in this end of the year dispatch we wanted to share some recaps and talk a bit about one of our longest standing research tracks: programmable ink.
Translate your UI Strings with AI TLDR: Easily keep your NodeJS projects translated in many languages with my JSON AI Translation NPM...
10th Oct 2024
1

Translate your UI Strings with AI

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2024
TLDR: Easily keep your NodeJS projects translated in many languages with my JSON AI Translation NPM package. A few months ago I translated KidzFun.art to multiple other languages, using ChatGPT’s AI for the translations. This worked fine when dealing with a blank slate, but I...
What I'm up to - March 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did...
1st Mar 2024
1

What I'm up to - March 2024

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

1st Mar 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in February - Finished my residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I gave a presentation Rethinking Wo...
What I'm up to - June 2022 I'm testing a monthly email about what I'm doing! ✨ Highlights of last month - I finished the...
1st Jun 2022
1

What I'm up to - June 2022

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

1st Jun 2022
I'm testing a monthly email about what I'm doing! ✨ Highlights of last month - I finished the first version of Postcard, which is a personal website + mailing list tool I'm building. (If you w...
Liz rides the subway on May 9, 2016 Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
10th May 2016
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Liz rides the subway on May 9, 2016

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

10th May 2016
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. On today's commutes to and from work: A Fine Frenzy's "Rangers" is a much more poetic song than Taylor Swift's awkwardly similar "I Know Places." A hunted...
Supply and Demand Are Broken in Programming Education Markets are efficient, right? I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of...
24th Nov 2025
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Supply and Demand Are Broken in Programming Education

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

24th Nov 2025
Markets are efficient, right? I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of stock market bubble, but I do believe that most markets are mostly efficient. Everyone out there is looking for a good deal, and despite the well-known irrationalities of human...
AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users New Logic for Programmers Release v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on...
5th Jun 2025
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AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users

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

5th Jun 2025
New Logic for Programmers Release v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on logic-based refactoring, with new material on set types and testing refactors are correct. See the full release notes at the changelog page. Due to conference pressure v0.11 will...
How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code) I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI...
23rd Dec 2025
1

How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code)

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

23rd Dec 2025
I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI influencer "built 15 apps in a weekend" crowd, but Claude Code just did something wild for me. Had it help us rip out our entire search engine - we're talking millions and millions of...
Memories of Sapporo Ruby Kaigi 2012 (#sprk2012) I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already...
17th Sep 2012
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Memories of Sapporo Ruby Kaigi 2012 (#sprk2012)

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Sep 2012
I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already [another Rubyist here](https://twitter.com/igaiga555/status/247511186394972160). Five minutes before, I met [another one](https://twitter.com/yotii23) walking down the street. Last...
Synology DS923+ vs. FreeBSD w/ZFS A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from...
13th Dec 2024
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Synology DS923+ vs. FreeBSD w/ZFS

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

13th Dec 2024
A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from Synology.
Reasons to write design docs Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half...
2nd Sep 2024
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Reasons to write design docs

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

2nd Sep 2024
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half true, though, since my job is as much about people and communication as it is about technology. Probably more, actually. Writing is useful at all levels of software engineering. It's...
Getting in shape for summer This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future...
2nd Jun 2023
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Getting in shape for summer

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

2nd Jun 2023
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future release. Enjoy a mild May because this summer is going to get hot! Calculator Calculator now follows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, even when the main text entry isn’t focused,...
Tech Debt When people start working on General Purpose Robots there is a tendency to try to make sure that...
2nd May 2023
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Tech Debt

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

2nd May 2023
When people start working on General Purpose Robots there is a tendency to try to make sure that everything they do is Fully General Purpose And Future Proof. They have grand visions and world changing ambitions. Those make it seem like they should be building grand software, to...
javascript weakmaps should be iterable Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be...
19th Aug 2024
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javascript weakmaps should be iterable

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Aug 2024
Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be iterable, and we should fix it.WeakMap A associates a key with a value, as long as the key is otherwise reachable in a program. (It is an .)WeakMapephemeron table When was added to...
Technology & The Hollowing Middle Class IT systems within large enterprises have done wonders to improve the efficiencies, resulting in...
18th Sep 2024
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Technology & The Hollowing Middle Class

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

18th Sep 2024
IT systems within large enterprises have done wonders to improve the efficiencies, resulting in great cost-savings, yet with unquestioned social effects. In his book Rhodes & His Banker, Richard Steyn narrates the founding and the early years of the bank we now know as Standard...
Bike Brooklyn! zine I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of...
23rd Apr 2025
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Bike Brooklyn! zine

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

23rd Apr 2025
I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of the people other bicyclists ask questions to now. I decided to make a zine that answers the most common of those questions: Bike Brooklyn! is a zine that touches on everything I...
Plugin Systems "What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon Comparative Plugin Systems...
11th Jul 2017
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Plugin Systems

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jul 2017
"What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon Comparative Plugin Systems BoF. Update: This BoF and post inspired [a talk I gave at PyGotham 2017][pygotham2017]. Within the programming world, and the Python ecosystem in particular, there are a lot of...
No sacred masterpieces Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
15th Sep 2023
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No sacred masterpieces

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

15th Sep 2023
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
2024: Just the Start 2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023...
31st Dec 2024
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2024: Just the Start

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

31st Dec 2024
2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023 was tough, but 2024 went some way to redressing the balance and I am even more positive about 2025 because of it. Here are a few highlights: We went to Japan! My first time in...
Mission Control — Jobs 1.0 released We’ve just released Mission Control — Jobs v1.0.0, the dashboard and set of extensions to operate...
4th Dec 2024
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Mission Control — Jobs 1.0 released

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

4th Dec 2024
We’ve just released Mission Control — Jobs v1.0.0, the dashboard and set of extensions to operate background jobs that we introduced earlier this year. This new version is the result of 92 pull requests, 67 issues and the help of 35 different contributors. It includes many...
The RP2350 is too fast I had a few hours of “fun” figuring out why my RP2350 could use my ILI9341 display, but not the...
15th May 2026
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The RP2350 is too fast

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

15th May 2026
I had a few hours of “fun” figuring out why my RP2350 could use my ILI9341 display, but not the ST7796 one. To be more specific, displaying stuff with the first display worked flawlessly, while the ST7796 would display a single frame correctly, and then glitch. Depending on the...
Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check The following incredibly small sorting algorithm has an $O(n^{4/3})$ worst-case runtime: def...
31st Dec 2025
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Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2025
The following incredibly small sorting algorithm has an $O(n^{4/3})$ worst-case runtime: def fibonacci_sort(v): a, b = 1, 1 while a * b < len(v): a, b = b, a + b while a > 0: a, b = b - a, a g = a * b for i in range(g, len(v)): ...
The paper computer Now that we have actually good AI, I have this vision of a form of computing that doesn’t involve me...
9th Apr 2026
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The paper computer

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

9th Apr 2026
Now that we have actually good AI, I have this vision of a form of computing that doesn’t involve me using a computer so much. Imagine you had the day’s emails to go through. It would be nice if the ones that required a simple decision could be dispatched with a few pen-strokes:...
Hearts, stars, and trumpets: the things I 'favorite' but don't 'like' Twitter recently changed "favorites" to "likes". We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding...
5th Nov 2015
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Hearts, stars, and trumpets: the things I 'favorite' but don't 'like'

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

5th Nov 2015
Twitter recently changed "favorites" to "likes". We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding to use, and we know that at times the star could be confusing, especially to newcomers. You might like a lot of things, but not everything can be your favorite. It's true - not...
'First' thoughts on git I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git;...
5th Apr 2010
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'First' thoughts on git

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

5th Apr 2010
I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git; I've certainly already been exposed to git in a variety of ways. I'd always been told that my love of graph theory would convert me over to this different type of version control. I...
My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a...
3rd Feb 2022
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My Cheapskate Commenting System

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

3rd Feb 2022
My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
Clip sharing with Overcast Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
27th Apr 2019
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Clip sharing with Overcast

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2019
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014. Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
Alfred vs. Raycast: my constant debate After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred. This is what prompted me to make...
24th Jul 2023
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Alfred vs. Raycast: my constant debate

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

24th Jul 2023
After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred. This is what prompted me to make that decision, and why I may or may not stick with it.
Habits of great software engineers The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While...
4th Nov 2023
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Habits of great software engineers

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

4th Nov 2023
The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While coding is undeniably the […] The post Habits of great software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on...
6th Oct 2019
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Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile

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

6th Oct 2019
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don't style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
Build Your First Coding Project and Avoid Tutorial Hell While “real” hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell...
4th Jul 2023
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Build Your First Coding Project and Avoid Tutorial Hell

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

4th Jul 2023
While “real” hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell is very real.
Wait, IPython Can Do That?! Here are the slides for my talk called "Wait, IPython can do that?!". Since I update the slides...
7th Jul 2019
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Wait, IPython Can Do That?!

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

7th Jul 2019
Here are the slides for my talk called "Wait, IPython can do that?!". Since I update the slides before each conference to incorporate any new ideas that come to my mind and make sure they are up to date, if you are interested in a particular version of the slides, just send me an...
Insulin dump My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type...
12th Oct 2021
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Insulin dump

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

12th Oct 2021
My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. The student is allowed to keep a small purse with her at all times, as it contains a smartphone that runs an app that talks to, and controls her insulin pump. The...
Archives on custom domains unreachable Our public postmortem for the incident on October 20th, 2026.
a week ago
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Archives on custom domains unreachable

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

a week ago
Our public postmortem for the incident on October 20th, 2026.
Artificial Intelligence: Shades of Gray AI sure is a hot topic right now, and I see a lot of people arguing about it. To a lot of people...
25th Mar 2026
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Artificial Intelligence: Shades of Gray

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

25th Mar 2026
AI sure is a hot topic right now, and I see a lot of people arguing about it. To a lot of people around here, I’m the “computer person” they know and I get asked a lot about AI. I’m going to suggest a lot of things can be true at once. For instance: LLMs … Continue reading...
Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: Day 1 as a New Mom and Remote Tech Worker I started work back up again yesterday, June 1, as a remote tech worker for an open source...
1st Jun 2026
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Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: Day 1 as a New Mom and Remote Tech Worker

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

1st Jun 2026
I started work back up again yesterday, June 1, as a remote tech worker for an open source consultancy. My husband started his paternity leave today. I'm only going back part-time for the moment so my rough plan is to work 3 days a week with the exception of this week, as I...
10 ways to speed up web image loading Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent...
19th Dec 2023
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10 ways to speed up web image loading

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Dec 2023
Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent this.
Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink augmentation Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows,...
1st Jun 2023
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Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink augmentation

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

1st Jun 2023
Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows, and how we might be able to make these more dynamic.
Migrating a Create React App project to Vite Create React App (CRA) provides an all-in-one development toolchain for your React applications. It...
15th Jun 2021
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Migrating a Create React App project to Vite

from Darek Kay [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jun 2021
Create React App (CRA) provides an all-in-one development toolchain for your React applications. It is great for beginners, as you don't need to care about configuring your toolset. However, I've encountered more and more limitations without "ejecting", mostly due to the...
Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip “Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus,...
19th Dec 2022
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Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip

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

19th Dec 2022
“Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus, it piqued my interest when an early-stage SE chip startup, Cramium (still in stealth mode), approached me to advise on open source strategy. This blog post explains my reasoning...
SQLite commits are not durable under default settings SQLite doesn’t do fsync unless specified.
24th Aug 2025
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SQLite commits are not durable under default settings

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Aug 2025
SQLite doesn’t do fsync unless specified.
Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet “OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios,...
2nd Sep 2022
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Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet

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

2nd Sep 2022
“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios, and now you want to talk about building a reliable network out of… USB drives?” Well, yes. In fact, I’ve already done it. What is sneakernet? Normally, “sneakernet” is a sort of...
Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++ How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and...
10th Apr 2024
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Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++

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

10th Apr 2024
How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and crufty. Many things that are trivial to do in HTML are difficult in win32. One of those things is changing size of font used by your native, desktop app. I encountered this in...
2015-12-04 www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html
4th Dec 2015
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2015-12-04

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

4th Dec 2015
www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html
JSNES: a Nintendo emulator built in JavaScript I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as...
10th Nov 2009
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JSNES: a Nintendo emulator built in JavaScript

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

10th Nov 2009
I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as Flash. Granted, at the time many people were afraid of JavaScript and, thus, it wasn't used as widely as it is today. With the introduction of popular libraries such as jQuery,...
CSS in React Server Components You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
15th Apr 2024
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CSS in React Server Components

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

15th Apr 2024
You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
Writing Javascript without a build system Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend...
16th Feb 2023
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Writing Javascript without a build system

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

16th Feb 2023
Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend project, I was faced with the question: should I use a build system? I want to talk about what’s appealing to me about build systems, why I (usually) still don’t use them, and why I find...
eBPF Documentary eBPF is a crazy technology – like putting JavaScript into the Linux kernel – and getting it...
9th Mar 2024
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eBPF Documentary

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

9th Mar 2024
eBPF is a crazy technology – like putting JavaScript into the Linux kernel – and getting it accepted had so far been an untold story of strategy and ingenuity. The eBPF documentary, published late last year, tells this story by interviewing key players from 2014 including...
The Boot.dev Beat. December 2023 Hope you had a splendid Turkey month. My wife, two kids, and I spent Thanksgiving in southern Utah....
1st Dec 2023
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The Boot.dev Beat. December 2023

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

1st Dec 2023
Hope you had a splendid Turkey month. My wife, two kids, and I spent Thanksgiving in southern Utah. The fresh air was nice, AQI here in Northern Utah is 100+ right now… wouldn’t recommend. Anyway, back to coding.
The Death of Personality The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
1st Nov 2017
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The Death of Personality

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2017
The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it’s fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple’s iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
Maybe You Do Need Kubernetes Theo has this great video on Kubernetes, currently titled “You Don’t Need Kubernetes”. I’m a...
8th Mar 2024
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Maybe You Do Need Kubernetes

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

8th Mar 2024
Theo has this great video on Kubernetes, currently titled “You Don’t Need Kubernetes”. I’m a Kubernetes enjoyer (I even wrote a course on it, but I’m not here to argue about that. The part of the video I do want to discuss has nothing to do with k8s. It’s where Theo draws the...
Using a folder other than <code>posts/</code> with Eleventy I just updated this site to use Eleventy. I don’t update enchilada that much anymore. It’s now more...
22nd Nov 2020
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Using a folder other than <code>posts/</code> with Eleventy

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

22nd Nov 2020
I just updated this site to use Eleventy. I don’t update enchilada that much anymore. It’s now more a place to centralize all the little tweaks and gotchas of web work, and less a platform for scaffolding websites. In all honestly, enchilada was intended more to be more a simple...
Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io. Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames...
31st Mar 2014
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Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io.

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

31st Mar 2014
Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames than PGP and verified account linking to popular sites such as Twitter and GitHub. This is awesome because "PGP for humans" is long overdue and because I snatched up the namespace...
Bloop! Audible Error Logs As a frequent deployer of software, I’m usually watching several different flavors of system...
7th Jun 2018
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Bloop! Audible Error Logs

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

7th Jun 2018
As a frequent deployer of software, I’m usually watching several different flavors of system monitoring all at the same time. A few logstash dashboards in a few browser windows, a few grafana dashboards, a few different logs being tailed in a few different tmux windows. If it all...
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
10th Jul 2020
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The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

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

10th Jul 2020
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
But we haven't even mastered Acid2! Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second....
6th Mar 2008
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But we haven't even mastered Acid2!

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

6th Mar 2008
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...
1st Jul 2024
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July 2024

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

1st Jul 2024
Command Line HDR Image Processing Expensive cameras don’t take better photos. Folks tend to learn this when they do the first...
29th Jun 2021
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Command Line HDR Image Processing

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

29th Jun 2021
Expensive cameras don’t take better photos. Folks tend to learn this when they do the first side-by-side between their gorgeous iPhoneograhy and the objectively worse shots taken with their fancy new $2,000 DSLR. Cell phones have itty-bitty sensors and equally lilliputian optics...
Jason Cohen: About the author Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
6th Feb 2023
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Jason Cohen: About the author

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

6th Feb 2023
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two exits and two unicorns, I’ve been writing about startups for 16 years. I hope you’ll find it useful! As founder # Currently I’m the Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine, which I...
Handling JSON objects with duplicate names in Python Consider the following JSON object: { "sides": 4, "colour": "red", "sides": 5, "colour":...
4th May 2025
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Handling JSON objects with duplicate names in Python

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th May 2025
Consider the following JSON object: { "sides": 4, "colour": "red", "sides": 5, "colour": "blue" } Notice that sides and colour both appear twice. This looks invalid, but I learnt recently that this is actually legal JSON syntax! It’s unusual and discouraged, but it’s...
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal...
19th May 2021
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th May 2021
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol’ Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
Parsing URLs in JavaScript There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John...
24th Oct 2013
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Parsing URLs in JavaScript

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

24th Oct 2013
There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John Long over on GitHub. This technique works great, but the resulting search property will be a raw query string. This isn't very useful if you need to access certain variables in said...
A C program who’s source code is a Magic Eye A 2001 International Obfuscated C Code Contest winner who’s code forms a magic eye and which can...
8th Mar 2025
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A C program who’s source code is a Magic Eye

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

8th Mar 2025
A 2001 International Obfuscated C Code Contest winner who’s code forms a magic eye and which can produce a magic eye for any input
The Elon Swing Voter I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
6th Dec 2024
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The Elon Swing Voter

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

6th Dec 2024
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
Passing data from PHP to JavaScript Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated...
5th Mar 2015
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Passing data from PHP to JavaScript

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

5th Mar 2015
Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated trying to escape the output properly. Here's a way that always works—no escaping necessary. Let's say we have the following variable in PHP: $name = 'Bob Marley'; And we want to...
Assumed Audiences Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
8th Jan 2022
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Assumed Audiences

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

8th Jan 2022
Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
Winner, Name that Ware October 2025 Last month’s ware is an ADAS1010, described on the Analog devices website as a “15 Lead ECG Vital...
29th Nov 2025
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Winner, Name that Ware October 2025

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

29th Nov 2025
Last month’s ware is an ADAS1010, described on the Analog devices website as a “15 Lead ECG Vital Signs Monitor Module with Respiration, Temperature and Blood Pressure Measurement”. It advertises a “robust, with electromagnetic interference (EMI), shock, and vibration resistant...
How to upgrade or downgrade Node.js using npm Need to update your version of Node.js? Here's how you can upgrade or downgrade from the command...
5th Apr 2016
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How to upgrade or downgrade Node.js using npm

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

5th Apr 2016
Need to update your version of Node.js? Here's how you can upgrade or downgrade from the command line using npm. Upgrading to the latest stable version # This will update you to the latest available stable version: sudo npm cache clean -f sudo npm install -g n sudo n...
Personal Sprint Retrospectives Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on...
21st Oct 2022
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Personal Sprint Retrospectives

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

21st Oct 2022
Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on Fridays. If you've never done a sprint, a sprint is a set amount of time to complete a specific set of tasks. For example, we work in two week sprints at RapidAPI. I believe we did the...
Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a...
14th Apr 2023
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Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN

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

14th Apr 2023
Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a corporate or home network from a remote location, and access services as if you were there. But these days, the notion of “corporate network” and “home network” are less based around...
Trippy polynomials in arctangent scale This shows the global properties of polynomials, their derivatives, and explains how the Maclaurine...
10th Jan 2021
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Trippy polynomials in arctangent scale

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2021
This shows the global properties of polynomials, their derivatives, and explains how the Maclaurine and Taylor series work all with animated plots in arctangent scale.
自営業している開発者の事例 ![itnomikainagoya](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVz...
25th Nov 2013
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自営業している開発者の事例

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Nov 2013
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Personal tools I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking...
3rd Apr 2025
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Personal tools

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

3rd Apr 2025
I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking application, and a keylogger that let me keep track of when I was using a computer, and generate some pretty charts. I’ve taken a long break from those kinds of things. I love my...
If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
7th Sep 2020
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money

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

7th Sep 2020
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
Oct 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
2nd Nov 2019
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Oct 2019 Recap

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

2nd Nov 2019
Hello mailing list friends!
My 2025: The most productive year yet? As 2026 begins, thinking back on my 2025 is a bit nuts. I can’t believe how much new product I...
2nd Jan 2026
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My 2025: The most productive year yet?

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2026
As 2026 begins, thinking back on my 2025 is a bit nuts. I can’t believe how much new product I shipped. I think AI had a lot to do with it, freeing me up to take on projects that Had a technical component that would have discouraged me from starting Are purely personal but...
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past...
7th Dec 2022
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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2022
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop...
22nd Nov 2024
Navigating personal information with care Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020,...
24th Sep 2023
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Navigating personal information with care

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

24th Sep 2023
Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020, we developed some technology and processes to support a very simple principle: employees shouldn’t have access — intentionally or unintentionally — to personal information from our...
Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
27th Feb 2019
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Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful

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

27th Feb 2019
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
21st Jan 2026
Singletons in ES6 - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming....
4th Nov 2019
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Singletons in ES6 - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

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

4th Nov 2019
Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming. Let’s take a look at what they are, when to (maybe) use them, and when not to.
Thoughts on comments For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a...
12th Jun 2016
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Thoughts on comments

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

12th Jun 2016
For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a good blog post without a relevant discussion to accompany it? You might find it strange to learn that Postleaf doesn't ship with comments. This is by design, and I'll explain why...
The Web’s Next Transition Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a...
4th Oct 2022
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The Web’s Next Transition

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

4th Oct 2022
Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a new and improved architecture for building web applications.
4 short stories of our attempts to be lean at our startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s no secret...
2nd Mar 2014
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4 short stories of our attempts to be lean at our startup

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

2nd Mar 2014
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s no secret that I’ve personally been hugely impacted by Eric Ries’ [https://twitter.com/ericries] work and the Lean Startup [http://theleanstartup.com/] movement. Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]...
Setting Up a Free SSL Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
7th Aug 2018
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Setting Up a Free SSL

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

7th Aug 2018
Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol. Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
Failure 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post. This is...
15th Jun 2024
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Failure 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate

from Jibran’s Perspective [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jun 2024
I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post. This is a good failure. It has taught me things, lessons I can use in the future to avoid failing this way again. But first a bit of context. What did I fail at? In February of 2024 I...
We spend $45,000 on doing more weird every month "Do more weird" is an actual PostHog company value , and we have a discretionary $45k/mo budget...
5th Aug 2026
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We spend $45,000 on doing more weird every month

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

5th Aug 2026
"Do more weird" is an actual PostHog company value , and we have a discretionary $45k/mo budget that anyone can use to bring weird ideas to life…
Autoconf’s revenge: ad-hoc shell templates How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect
8th Jul 2026
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Autoconf’s revenge: ad-hoc shell templates

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

8th Jul 2026
How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect
Jazz Ukuele Video: What's New? I arranged and recorded a jazz ukulele version of the classic song 'What's New?'
2nd Apr 2010
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Jazz Ukuele Video: What's New?

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

2nd Apr 2010
I arranged and recorded a jazz ukulele version of the classic song 'What's New?'
Vicuna A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models...
5th Apr 2023
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Vicuna

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

5th Apr 2023
A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models like this, such as Alpaca and GPT4All. And I also fine-tuned my own. But Vicuna is a lot better. Here is a conversation I had with it. User: Write a limerick about language...
Concatenating with strings.Builder Quickly in Golang The Go standard library makes concatenating strings easy. Concatenation is just a fancy word for...
4th May 2021
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Concatenating with strings.Builder Quickly in Golang

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

4th May 2021
The Go standard library makes concatenating strings easy. Concatenation is just a fancy word for adding strings together to make a larger string. For example, if we concatenate "hello", " " and "world" we’d get "hello world".
French onion soup redux If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm...
2nd Jan 2012
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French onion soup redux

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

2nd Jan 2012
If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm probably lying a little bit. What most people call French onion soup is mostly a thing of the past for me. But this soup is very similar. I grew out of the big croutons and the...
Making a Retro Dock for the Playdate Console I made a retro-inspired dock to charge my Playdate out of a Raspberry Pi case. The case is a...
27th Jul 2025
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Making a Retro Dock for the Playdate Console

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

27th Jul 2025
I made a retro-inspired dock to charge my Playdate out of a Raspberry Pi case. The case is a miniature version of the Super Famicom and I love how it makes the Playdate look like a little game cartridge when it’s charging. Making one yourself is pretty straight-forward, you’ll...
Fancier exports Fancier exports
15th Aug 2022
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Fancier exports

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

15th Aug 2022
Fancier exports
What I'm up to - November 2023 This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2023
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What I'm up to - November 2023

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

1st Nov 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in October - Switched my daily driver Aeropress coffee recipe to this one by Jonathan Gagné. It p...
What email will look like in the future On patching a 1981-era system mid-flight
1st May 2026
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What email will look like in the future

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

1st May 2026
On patching a 1981-era system mid-flight
Electric Geek Transportation Systems I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I...
20th Aug 2019
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Electric Geek Transportation Systems

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

20th Aug 2019
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the first new car I ever bought) was the quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then we bought a VW station wagon
The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022 Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
11th Oct 2022
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The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022

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

11th Oct 2022
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
What the Fork is Babel? Illustrated notes on how Babel works
1st Feb 2019
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What the Fork is Babel?

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

1st Feb 2019
Illustrated notes on how Babel works
How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022 We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of...
1st Nov 2022
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How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022

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

1st Nov 2022
We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of v2.3](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/2961)) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all. Googled and found [this...
Reverse Outlining with Language Models Using language models to generate reverse outlines of writing drafts
8th Jan 2023
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Reverse Outlining with Language Models

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

8th Jan 2023
Using language models to generate reverse outlines of writing drafts
Starting a New Chapter At the end of this week, I am starting a new chapter of my life: entrepreneurship. This is my last...
21st Aug 2016
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Starting a New Chapter

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

21st Aug 2016
At the end of this week, I am starting a new chapter of my life: entrepreneurship. This is my last week at CrossChx, and then I begin splitting my time between contract work and developing some of my own ideas. I only spent about three quarters of a year at CrossChx, but in that...
My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer The most stressful period of my career.
5th Sep 2020
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My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer

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

5th Sep 2020
The most stressful period of my career.
Winner, Name that Ware April 2026 Seems like I overestimated people’s interest in looking at silicon images! Congrats to k8 for...
31st May 2026
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2026

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

31st May 2026
Seems like I overestimated people’s interest in looking at silicon images! Congrats to k8 for attempting the challenge, I appreciate the participation. email me for your prize! Recall that the list of possible memory dimensions is limited to a list of 28 possible types of...
Markdown Today: Journal from any browser A private, mobile-first web app that writes your journal directly to Dropbox.
7th Apr 2017
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Markdown Today: Journal from any browser

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

7th Apr 2017
A private, mobile-first web app that writes your journal directly to Dropbox.
Grit Multipliers People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder....
4th Dec 2022
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Grit Multipliers

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

4th Dec 2022
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder. The argument goes that without co-founders, you get faster decision making, and since speed is one of most important advantages you have, you get a better shot at iterating...
Happy New Year: Lisp interpreter in SQL This year, I'll be implementing a Lisp interpreter in SQL. Now, what's Lisp, and why would I want to...
31st Dec 2025
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Happy New Year: Lisp interpreter in SQL

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

31st Dec 2025
This year, I'll be implementing a Lisp interpreter in SQL. Now, what's Lisp, and why would I want to do that? Well, let me tell you a little story about that. Several decades ago, I got a New Year's present from my roommate's girlfriend. It was a book. She got it at a used...
Baochip-1x: A Mostly-Open, 22nm SoC for High Assurance Applications One of my latest projects is the Baochip-1x, a mostly-open, full-custom silicon chip fabricated in...
10th Mar 2026
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Baochip-1x: A Mostly-Open, 22nm SoC for High Assurance Applications

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

10th Mar 2026
One of my latest projects is the Baochip-1x, a mostly-open, full-custom silicon chip fabricated in TSMC 22nm, targeted at high assurance applications. It’s a security chip, but far more open than any other security chip; it’s also a general purpose microcontroller that fills a...
Topologies of Remote Teams When you're building or scaling a software engineering team, you naturally run into a choice at some...
23rd Aug 2018
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Topologies of Remote Teams

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

23rd Aug 2018
When you're building or scaling a software engineering team, you naturally run into a choice at some point: will we all be in the same office, or will we do this "remote work" thing? There are a lot of factors that go into whether or not remote work will work for your team, like...
2017 in review 2017 has been incredible, and I can't wait to build more stuff for y'all in 2018!
26th Dec 2017
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2017 in review

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

26th Dec 2017
2017 has been incredible, and I can't wait to build more stuff for y'all in 2018!
The macOS Apps I'm Using For a long time, the two most popular articles on my blog were lists of macOS apps and CLI tools,...
16th Nov 2024
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The macOS Apps I'm Using

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

16th Nov 2024
For a long time, the two most popular articles on my blog were lists of macOS apps and CLI tools, which I've been using. Coincidentally, these kinds of lists are something I love to read myself. I can always find some cool, new tool in such articles. It doesn't matter that I will...
AI Is Like a Lossy JPEG That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense...
4th Mar 2024
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AI Is Like a Lossy JPEG

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

4th Mar 2024
That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense when I read it. But Paul Ford, writing in the Aboard Newsletter, helped it make even more sense in my brain. [AI tools] compress lots and lots of information—text, image, more—in...
how fast is go? simulating millions of particles on a smart tv The challenge, simulate millions of particles in golang, multi-player enabled, cpu only, smart tv...
13th Sep 2025
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how fast is go? simulating millions of particles on a smart tv

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

13th Sep 2025
The challenge, simulate millions of particles in golang, multi-player enabled, cpu only, smart tv compatible.
Software freedom isn't about licenses -- it's about power. A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When...
28th Mar 2021
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Software freedom isn't about licenses -- it's about power.

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Mar 2021
A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When the free software movement was founded thirty years ago, these restrictive licenses were the primary user-hostile power dynamic, so permissive and copyleft licenses emerged as...
Revised rules of engineering leadership. From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments, which are challenging,...
15th Jun 2026
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Revised rules of engineering leadership.

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

15th Jun 2026
From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments, which are challenging, but also educational. The most valuable feature of hypergrowth is that your mistakes reveal themselves next month rather than next year, because things go wrong very loudly when...
Improving my productivity in 2018 2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation,...
13th Jan 2018
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Improving my productivity in 2018

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

13th Jan 2018
2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation, built this site and started blogging…
RobotEra Has Two More Robot Olympic Wins! RobotEra has two more Olympic Medals. This time orange peeling (which PI accomplished but needed an...
6th Apr 2026
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RobotEra Has Two More Robot Olympic Wins!

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

6th Apr 2026
RobotEra has two more Olympic Medals. This time orange peeling (which PI accomplished but needed an external tool, which disqualified them) and unlocking a padlock 25% faster than PI’s demonstration.
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own...
2nd Dec 2022
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Building openring with Jekyll Build

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

2nd Dec 2022
Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own personal "reading list" of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
Automating Capacitive Buttons with a Modified Switchbot I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically...
14th Mar 2023
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Automating Capacitive Buttons with a Modified Switchbot

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

14th Mar 2023
I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically based on whether or not I was in the room. A smart outlet wouldn’t work for this because the heater has a manual switch. My next thought was to use my Switchbot smart button pusher,...
Bi-whatever transformations An interactive explanation of how polynomial transformations such as trilinear or biquadratic or...
16th Jun 2020
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Bi-whatever transformations

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jun 2020
An interactive explanation of how polynomial transformations such as trilinear or biquadratic or even linear-cubic work, and how to craft your own that fits your particular task the best.
hybrid quota-linear rate limiter A while back I wrote about the linear rate limit algorithms leaky bucket and GCRA. Since then I have...
13th Jan 2026
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hybrid quota-linear rate limiter

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

13th Jan 2026
A while back I wrote about the linear rate limit algorithms leaky bucket and GCRA. Since then I have been vexed by how common it is to implement rate limiting using complicated and wasteful algorithms (for example). But linear (and exponential) rate limiters have a...
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
3rd Nov 2021
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A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist

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

3rd Nov 2021
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door... I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website's CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It's pretty amazing to see the problems...
How fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
9th Nov 2024
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How fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles

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

9th Nov 2024
The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
The commodification of travel How travel has become an act of collection
22nd Apr 2026
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The commodification of travel

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

22nd Apr 2026
How travel has become an act of collection
Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical...
1st Dec 2023
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Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities

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

1st Dec 2023
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential...
Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday | ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| Don't push to production...
1st May 2019
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies

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

1st May 2019
VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday | ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| Don't push to production |___________| (___/) || (⌾ㅅ⌾) || /   づ — Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly) April 12, 2019 So, that happened. I hadn’t seen anyone say something like this in quite a while.  I remember saying things like...
Correct vs Good What's the difference?
11th Feb 2025
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Correct vs Good

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

11th Feb 2025
What's the difference?
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