Joel Gascoigne
Work harder on yourself than you do on your startup
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> "Work harder on yourself than you do on your job." - Jim Rohn
A long time ago, I came across the amazing quote above, which was said often by
Jim Rohn. It stook in my mind, and as the years
Ognjen Regoje •...
What if I spent exactly two hours on each post
Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had...
11 months ago
Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had dwindled.
So, in the interest of being prolific and producing content that I can iterate and learn from, at the start of the year I decided that this year I would not spend more than...
the singularity is...
Where the Bitter Lesson ends
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the...
9 months ago
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the thing we built can do the engineering.
Clips have been making the rounds on Twitter from my second Lex about the “bishop guy” in a chess engine, or a “cone guy” in a self driving...
ntietz.com blog -...
Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps)
My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about.
This has two effects: engineers1 ask me...
2 weeks ago
My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about.
This has two effects: engineers1 ask me about it, and everyone else ignores me.
These effects are not undesirable, but further testing is required.
The main reason I have such an unusual setup, though, is more...
A Beautiful Site
Creating a printable website using print stylesheets
I frequently see little printer icons all over the web that clearly mean I can print out a clean...
over a year ago
I frequently see little printer icons all over the web that clearly mean I can print out a clean version of the webpage that I'm looking at. These little icons are indeed a beautiful sight from the user's perspective. No more having to modify printer settings or copy and paste...
Ferd.ca
The Review Is the Action Item
2024/05/30
The Review Is the Action Item
I like to consider running an incident review to be its own...
6 months ago
2024/05/30
The Review Is the Action Item
I like to consider running an incident review to be its own action item. Other follow-ups emerging from it are a plus, but the point is to learn from incidents, and the review gives room for that to happen.
This is not surprising advice if...
Making software...
Chasing Performance
Chasing Performance
2017-11-20
Update
This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been...
over a year ago
Chasing Performance
2017-11-20
Update
This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been redesigned since. I'm keeping this article up as a point of reference.
So I decided to participate in Smashing Mag's Front End Performance Challenge, not only for the potential of...
HTMHell
#21 Legendary legend!
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text.
Bad code
<button...
over a year ago
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text.
Bad code
<button class="panel-heading" tabindex="0" href="#collapse0" aria-expanded="true">
<legend> Industries Served </legend>
</button>
Issues and how to fix them
legend is not allowed as a child of any other...
ntietz.com blog
Procrastinating on my side project by torturing databases
One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just...
9 months ago
One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just a fun diversion.
I ran into that recently for a side project I'm working on.
It wasn't really necessary to test database options semi-rigorously, but here we are.
This project is...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Neither necessary nor sufficient
over a year ago
Don Melton
My traitorous move to Windows
I still have my Mac. Three of them in fact. And, of course, my iPhone. Why would I ever get rid of...
over a year ago
I still have my Mac. Three of them in fact. And, of course, my iPhone. Why would I ever get rid of it? That’s just crazy talk.
But… uh… my primary desktop computer has changed. Just a bit.
Most of you probably don’t know this but a little over five years ago I built my own gaming...
A Beautiful Site
Prefers Reduced Motion
By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not...
over a year ago
By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not a user prefers, well, reduced motion. You can use this to tone down (or turn off) transitions and animations in your stylesheet to accommodate users with vestibular motion...
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Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for
Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their...
a year ago
Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their typical approach is to look at the long list of admin…
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, April 2024
The ware for April 2024 is shown below: In some ways, this is a much easier ware than last month’s,...
7 months ago
The ware for April 2024 is shown below: In some ways, this is a much easier ware than last month’s, but I wonder if anyone will be able to name the precise function of this ware. Thanks to Ole for taking the photo, and for the adventures en route to the teardown!
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Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist...
over a year ago
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist previously did everything on PC, but joining PostHog…
alexwlchan
Google is showing outdated results from the UK’s election
Last week, fourteen years of Tory government came to an end with a Labour landslide.
It was a rough...
5 months ago
Last week, fourteen years of Tory government came to an end with a Labour landslide.
It was a rough night for every Conservative candidate, many of whom either lost their seat or saw their majorities severely diminished.
One of those Conservative candidates was Nigel...
Liz Denys
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...
over a year ago
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...
Joel Gascoigne
How to start your startup in 4 steps
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over a year ago
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Having started my latest venture [http://bufferapp.com] just over 5 months ago,
and having just reached ramen profitability
[http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html], I want to share some...
Epic Web Dev
Contribute an Epic Stack Example (tip)
How to create an Epic Stack example to help others and get new features built into the Epic Stack.
a year ago
How to create an Epic Stack example to help others and get new features built into the Epic Stack.
David Heinemeier...
Finding acoustical delight in THE THOCK
Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I...
4 months ago
Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I soon learned that it describes one of those strangely seductive sounds you can produce from pressing the keys on a keyboard tuned for acoustical joy. And now, dammit, I've...
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The creative agency of small projects
Since I moved out of the startup world I've exclusively worked on small projects. Niche, simple...
a year ago
Since I moved out of the startup world I've exclusively worked on small projects. Niche, simple tools packed with love and attention to detail. I've written about my approach to building, and how it impacts my life and outlook.
Today, however, I want to write about a less-obvious...
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
over a year ago
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
Posts on Nikita...
Handmade Seattle 2023
A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
11 months ago
A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with the following abstract:
An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.”
Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface...
Miguel Carranza
2020 University of Seville CS Commencement speech
I was wrapping up an interview when I got a Twitter DM from Pablo. It was an invitation to give the...
over a year ago
I was wrapping up an interview when I got a Twitter DM from Pablo. It was an invitation to give the commencement speech for the University of Seville’s CS School, where I studied. Wow, I was not expecting that at all. I was humbled and very excited to help as much as I could and...
elementary Blog
GTK 4 Porting And A Bit Of Whimsy
I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for...
9 months ago
I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for helping us reach 20% of our monthly funding goal! I’ve been seeing a ton of demand for Early Access which is super exciting. If you’re not already in Early Access, you can be among...
Making software...
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
2022-12-23
The Desire to Suckless
While I have been happy with my...
over a year ago
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
2022-12-23
The Desire to Suckless
While I have been happy with my previous desktop setup using Wayland on Alpine Linux, I just couldn't shake the urge to fully embrace the suckless ecosystem. Although, this meant ditching Wayland and returning...
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Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
over a year ago
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
bt RSS Feed
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
2022-12-23
The Desire to Suckless
While I have been happy with my...
over a year ago
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
2022-12-23
The Desire to Suckless
While I have been happy with my previous desktop setup using Wayland on Alpine Linux, I just couldn’t shake the urge to fully embrace the suckless ecosystem. Although, this meant ditching Wayland and returning...
Code Of Honor
Credit where credit is due
I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years...
2 months ago
I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
Stephen Wolfram...
How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
a year ago
This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the...
Joel Gascoigne
Change at Buffer: The next phase, and why our co-founder and our CTO are moving on
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
over a year ago
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog
[https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/].
We’ve always done things differently at Buffer. For me, this has always come
from a natural desire to question things.
Why base your company and team in a single location? Why is...
Acko.net
Teardown Frame Teardown
Rendering analysis
In this post I'll do a "one frame" breakdown of Tuxedo Labs' indie game...
a year ago
Rendering analysis
In this post I'll do a "one frame" breakdown of Tuxedo Labs' indie game Teardown.
The game is unique for having a voxel-driven engine, which provides a fully destructible environment. It embraces this boon, by giving the player a multitude of tools that...
The Changelog
The Hidden Drawbacks of P2P (And a Defense of Signal)
Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some...
over a year ago
Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some conversation followed, which led me to consider some of the problems with P2P protocols. P2P and Privacy Brave adopting IPFS has driven a lot of buzz lately. IPFS is essentially a...
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Switching Things Over to ikiwiki
Switching Things Over to ikiwiki
2023-12-17
I’ve done it again. My personal website is no longer...
a year ago
Switching Things Over to ikiwiki
2023-12-17
I’ve done it again. My personal website is no longer generated with barf but is instead built on top of ikiwiki. The old RSS feed (btxx.org/atom.xml) still exists but will no longer receive updates. The new feed can be found on the...
Joel Gascoigne
I have no idea what I am doing
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over a year ago
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who listened to and discussed some of these thoughts with me before I turned
them into a blog post.
In the last few...
Blog System/5
Running GNU on DOS with DJGPP
Peeking under the covers to see how DJGPP manages to run GCC on DOS
10 months ago
Peeking under the covers to see how DJGPP manages to run GCC on DOS
Nelson's Weblog
Starlink in Nov 2022
My Starlink Internet service has gotten pretty bad; every evening I'm well under 50Mbps
and some...
over a year ago
My Starlink Internet service has gotten pretty bad; every evening I'm well under 50Mbps
and some hours I only get 2Mbps. (Compare 100Mbps+ last
year.) I've given up trying to stream 1080p video at night; that's a pretty
dismal result for a new Internet service in 2022.
Starlink...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Build Great Software By Repeatedly Encountering It
Robin in “Vibe driven development” (which I took notes):
the only way to build a great product is to...
a year ago
Robin in “Vibe driven development” (which I took notes):
the only way to build a great product is to use it every day, to stare at it, to hold it in your hands to feel its lumps. The data and customers will lie to you but the product never will.
Oof. That lands with me.
As a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools
For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you!
And I pass on this super useful...
a year ago
For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you!
And I pass on this super useful (perhaps obvious) piece of information I received from Bramus: watch your animations play out in slow motion using Chrome’s devtools.
I’ve been working on view transitions on my icon...
Irrational...
Getting a job as an engineering executive.
I started my first executive job search when I was 25.
Eventually, I got an offer to lead...
a year ago
I started my first executive job search when I was 25.
Eventually, I got an offer to lead engineering at a startup with four engineers,
which I turned down to join Uber.
It wasn’t until a decade later that I joined Calm and started my first executive role.
If you start...
Patrick Kayongo
Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends
The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory...
a year ago
The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory workers, and in a twist of irony, it’s now taking the jobs of those who developed its predecessors – the software developers. At least that’s what many alarmist headlines are saying...
Elad Blog
Capital Efficient Businesses
Many of the biggest companies in the world started off as capital efficient businesses. We discuss.
a year ago
Many of the biggest companies in the world started off as capital efficient businesses. We discuss.
A Beautiful Site
Buttons and Cursors
There's a post from 2016 entitled Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor that's been making its way...
over a year ago
There's a post from 2016 entitled Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor that's been making its way around social media this week. While the author is correct in his statement that operating system buttons don't have hand cursors, the pattern has become ubiquitous and somewhat...
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Do You Have an Extra $10?
Do You Have an Extra $10?
2022-11-23
As software designers and developers, think of all the little...
over a year ago
Do You Have an Extra $10?
2022-11-23
As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it’s a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it’s a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it’s an impulse buy while we’re out shopping for...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Hexadecimal Sucks
Humans do no operate on hexadecimal symbols effectively […] there are
exceptions.
– Dan...
6 months ago
Humans do no operate on hexadecimal symbols effectively […] there are
exceptions.
– Dan Kaminsky
When SSH
added ASCII art fingerprints (AKA, randomart), the author credited a
talk by Dan
Kaminsky.
As a refresher, randomart looks like this:
$ ssh-keygen -lv -f...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Fourteen years
Fourteen years
It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my...
3 weeks ago
Fourteen years
It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my apartment in Birmingham, in the UK. The launch came seven weeks after I started working on the project on the side as a contract web developer. For a few weeks, I called it bfffr...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I implemented Oembed Proxy for GitHub
Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub
I’m writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I...
over a year ago
Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub
I’m writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I need to include code snippets.
Notion has support for code blocks but it’s not good enough for my use case.
I want to make sure the code compiles so I write small programs and...
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Array 1.19.0
This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer...
over a year ago
This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer features, as well as our core analytics stack…
macwright.com
Val.town
Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the...
a year ago
Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the small, for writing short programs in TypeScript that can link together into something larger. It’s for writing that scheduled web scraper or basic API that you wanted to make but...
A Smart Bear
Navigating the unpredictability of everything
We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it...
a year ago
We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it means you need these techniques to navigate a volatile world.
Making software...
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
2020-09-16
I recently came across the...
over a year ago
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
2020-09-16
I recently came across the incredibly cool design for an "ultimate Raspberry Pi computer" by NODE and was inspired to create my own "portable" Pi device. Although, with my concept, I decided to set a few restrictions...
Alex Meub
Use the Natural CSS Box Model
The CSS Box Model is used to describe how items are rendered (in boxes) from elements in the...
over a year ago
The CSS Box Model is used to describe how items are rendered (in boxes) from elements in the document tree. It determines how the content area, padding, border and margin of an element will be displayed. There are two types.
The W3C Box Model
x
...
Ralph Ammer
Immanuel Kant—What can we know?
If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there...
a year ago
If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there is no way around Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. In this book Kant asked the simple question: “What can we know?“ And his answer is foundational to how we experience and...
A Smart Bear
Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not...
a year ago
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not selling" might be worse. Maybe my story will help you.
TokyoDev
Software Developer Salaries in Japan
Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software...
a year ago
Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software development doesn’t pay exceptionally well: according to [a 2022...
Dan Slimmon
Dead air on the incident call
Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I'll...
9 months ago
Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I'll present a few incident scenarios and explore the role of the incident commander in breaking (or simply abiding in) dead air.
Alex Meub
A Great Bumper Sticker
I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago...
over a year ago
I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago and I couldn’t stop laughing:
It’s of course making fun of the Earth Stickers that are so common everywhere (especially in Portland):
If you’re curious, the original sticker was...
the singularity is...
Tech Heroin
Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell...
11 months ago
Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell cocaine.
Techno-Optimism is cocaine. Atlas Shrugged is cocaine. Futurism is cocaine.
I am a progressive. A liberal. I believe in progress.
I am not a conservative. Conservatives lose....
Irrational...
Culture vs systems.
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
a year ago
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
David Heinemeier...
The last RailsConf
Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started...
7 months ago
Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started with something like 400-600 attendees at the inaugural conference in Chicago in 2006, then just kept doubling year over year, as Rails went to the moon. If memory serves me right,...
Alex MacCaw
Captain's Log #1
In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech...
over a year ago
In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech businesses, and more.
samwho.dev
Getting an Autism Diagnosis
On the 3rd of March 2022, we received a letter informing us that our eldest son,
Max, has Autism...
a year ago
On the 3rd of March 2022, we received a letter informing us that our eldest son,
Max, has Autism Spectrum Disorder. The letter was the end result of a long
process. I’m going to talk about that process from start to finish, in as much
detail as I can.
This post would not have...
Tony Finch's blog
regpg-1.12
Yesterday I received a bug report for regpg, my program that
safely stores server secrets encrypted...
7 months ago
Yesterday I received a bug report for regpg, my program that
safely stores server secrets encrypted with gpg so they can be
commited to a git repository.
The bug was that I used the classic shell pipeline find | xargs grep
with the classic Unix “who would want spaces in...
Making software...
Super Mario Blocks in CSS
Super Mario Blocks in CSS
2019-02-15
Just because we can, let's make a quick demo on how to build...
over a year ago
Super Mario Blocks in CSS
2019-02-15
Just because we can, let's make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks.
What our final product will look like:
Live CodePen Example
The HTML
The set of Mario blocks doesn't require a huge...
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Bringing AWS to App Developers
Where Amplify fits in AWS' trajectory, and why I am joining
over a year ago
Where Amplify fits in AWS' trajectory, and why I am joining
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Deploy a Django App to Render.com
Messing around learning Django and deploying
over a year ago
Messing around learning Django and deploying
A Beautiful Site
When To Create CSS Parts
I was recently asked a really good question on Twitter: when shouldn't an element be a CSS...
over a year ago
I was recently asked a really good question on Twitter: when shouldn't an element be a CSS Part?
I've spent a lot of time building web components, most of which are intended for design systems, and my answer is pretty straight-forward.
Every part you expose is an API that you're...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I'm not a VC (yet)
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
over a year ago
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
Writing - Andreas...
It’s hard to grow without trust
Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key
inhibitor).
5 months ago
Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key
inhibitor).
bt RSS Feed
Chasing Performance
Chasing Performance
2017-11-20
Update
This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been...
over a year ago
Chasing Performance
2017-11-20
Update
This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been redesigned since. I’m keeping this article up as a point of reference.
So I decided to participate in Smashing Mag’s Front End Performance Challenge, not only for the potential of...
ntietz.com blog
Achieving awful compression with digits of pi
Compression is a really hard problem, and it attracts a lot of interesting ideas.
There are some...
9 months ago
Compression is a really hard problem, and it attracts a lot of interesting ideas.
There are some numbers whose digits contain all sequences of digits1.
People have long hypothesized that pi is one such number; a proof remains elusive.
If we have a number which contains all...
A Beautiful Site
Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php
When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to...
over a year ago
When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to increment the time by one day. This can become problematic for two main reasons.
Issues with leap years #
A year has approximately 365.25 days, hence a leap year occurs once every four...
Joel Gascoigne
Making money with a product: A myth?
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over a year ago
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I’ve realised there was a time I didn’t believe people would pay for a product.
In my mind, it was a myth. As an entrepreneur, it’s so vital to overcome that.
First, a coffee shop conversation
I
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Perspective
Perspective
2024-08-06
I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and...
4 months ago
Perspective
2024-08-06
I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and perspective. If you haven’t yet, I...
orlp.net - Blog...
Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be?
This article is not about deciding whether two floating
point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are...
a year ago
This article is not about deciding whether two floating
point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are plenty of resources on
this (often subjective) problem. We simply want to know if ${x \leq y.}$
Suppose that you are a programmer, and that you have two numbers. You want to
know...
Julia Evans
Confusing git terminology
Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that
after almost 15...
a year ago
Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that
after almost 15 years of using git, I’ve become very used to git’s
idiosyncracies and it’s easy for me to forget what’s confusing about it.
So I asked people on Mastodon:
what git jargon do you find...
Epic Web Dev
Be S.M.A.R.T. About Flaky Tests (article)
Flaky tests undermine trust. Use the S.M.A.R.T. framework: Skip, Mitigate, Assess, Rewrite, Throw...
5 months ago
Flaky tests undermine trust. Use the S.M.A.R.T. framework: Skip, Mitigate, Assess, Rewrite, Throw away, to manage and fix them effectively.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Building an all-remote company from scratch
Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started...
over a year ago
Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started this way from scratch? PostHog has a team of 12, 1…
swyx's site RSS Feed
The 8 Jobs of Management
Recently, John Cutler...
over a year ago
Recently, John Cutler [tweeted](https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1533661807029563392?s=21&t=WJORvdw2EyoLB1ChjQ8NpA) a chart on the view of management:
Tinloof - Blog
How we boosted the performance of a Gatsby website by 80%
Sbaï Dentaire is the number 1 user-rated dental practice in Casablanca (Morocco) by Google...
over a year ago
Sbaï Dentaire is the number 1 user-rated dental practice in Casablanca (Morocco) by Google users:
Many patients book appointments through the website on the go from their mobile, therefore page speed is critical to avoid a high bounce rate.
This article explains how we improved...
samwho.dev
Turing Machines
body {
text-wrap: pretty;
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
* {
...
2 days ago
body {
text-wrap: pretty;
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
* {
transition: none;
animation: none;
}
}
turing-machine {
width: 100%;
display: block;
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 1em;
}
turing-machine...
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap, June 2021 (Almost Post-Pandemic Edition)
I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the...
over a year ago
I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the last 8 months the number of tech startups worth $1B or more ("unicorns") has grown by 43% from 487 Unicorns to 701. This is almost double the 361 unicorns in June 2019
Tinloof - Blog
Figma for developers: all you need to know
If you're a frontend developer, you are probably spending as much time on VS Code as on Figma.
This...
a year ago
If you're a frontend developer, you are probably spending as much time on VS Code as on Figma.
This quick read highlights some of the goodies that I personally use to speed up my workflow.
A word of caution
Jibran’s Perspective
State machines - Why and how to use them in web development.
What is a state machine?
I think Wikipedia does a very good job of defining a state machine.
A...
over a year ago
What is a state machine?
I think Wikipedia does a very good job of defining a state machine.
A finite-state machine (FSM) or finite-state automaton (FSA, plural: automata), finite automaton, or simply a state machine, is a mathematical model of computation. It is an abstract...
Joel Gascoigne
Treat it as finished
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
One of the most...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
One of the most important differences for me personally in how I’ve run my
current startup compared to the last one I founded has been how I treat the
product at each stage of the process. With...
Remains of the Day
TikTok and the Sorting Hat
I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people...
over a year ago
I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people with other dominant worldviews, though I am not a strict adherent. It’s more that in many situations when people ascribe causal power to something other than culture, I’m...
Epic Web Dev
Accessible, Typesafe, Progressively Enhanced Modern Web Forms
Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
a year ago
Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
over a year ago
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
A Beautiful Site
Semantic version numbers
Gone are the days of arbitrarily assigning version numbers to every new software release. With...
over a year ago
Gone are the days of arbitrarily assigning version numbers to every new software release. With semantic versioning, the question of how and when to bump versions is made simple.
According to semver.org, the syntax for version numbers should go like this: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
When...
Josh Comeau's blog
How I Built My Blog
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes...
over a year ago
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
Steve Klabnik
I'm making it dead simple to contribute to Ruby's documentation
over a year ago
macwright.com
You can finally use :has() in most places by
The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the...
a year ago
The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the compatibility table is pretty decent (89% at this writing). I already used has() in a previous post - that Strava CSS hack, but I’m finding it useful in so many places.
For example, in Val...
Alex Meub
About the Apple Captive Network Assistant
Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site...
over a year ago
Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site for a better resource on the Captive Network Assistant.
If you’re a mac user, you likely have seen a strange popup window appear on your computer when you try to connect to the...
Liz Denys
Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry
A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced...
over a year ago
A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced in computer science. One of the things she mentioned was how wearing dresses caused her to be treated differently. I, too, prefer dresses because I find them much more comfortable...
The Codist
My Wikipedia Entry For Trapeze
Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia.
It sure...
a year ago
Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia.
It sure seems like a long time ago.
General Robots
ML for Robots: Hybrid Learned vs End-to-End Learned
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 6
a year ago
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 6
ntietz.com blog
Rust's iterators optimize nicely—and contain a footgun
I saw a claim recently that in functional programming using "map/filter iterates over the list...
7 months ago
I saw a claim recently that in functional programming using "map/filter iterates over the list twice, while the foreach loop iterates only once."
The author continued that "Haskell can fuse maps together as an optimization but I don't think you safely fuse arbitrary map/filters?...
A Smart Bear
The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth
Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is...
over a year ago
Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is “viral.” This turns out to be incorrect, even for Facebook and Slack. If your model is incorrect, you don’t understand growth, which means you can’t control it, nor predict it. Here is...
Don Melton
Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous...
over a year ago
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous post:
On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same...
Computer Things
A list of ternary operators
Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability...
a month ago
Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability engineering and being way over my head in half the talks. I'm trying to catch up on The Book and contract work now so I'll do something silly here: ternary operators.
Almost all...
orlp.net - Blog...
Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search
by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss...
a year ago
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search
by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss the merits of the following snippet of
C++ code implementing a binary search:
template<typename It, typename T, typename Cmp>
It lower_bound_skarupke(It begin, It end, const T&...
bt RSS Feed
Hosting with Codeberg Pages
Hosting with Codeberg Pages
2022-07-29
I recently switched the pblog project repo over from...
over a year ago
Hosting with Codeberg Pages
2022-07-29
I recently switched the pblog project repo over from Sourcehut to Codeberg (mostly for UX reasons) and it got me looking into Codeberg Pages. It seemed like a cleaner approach to host my personal blog on the same platform I planned to also...
Making software...
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
2020-08-13
For the past four months this blog has been...
over a year ago
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
2020-08-13
For the past four months this blog has been running on WordPress - but that ended today. I've officially switched back over to Jekyll. I'm not going to spend too much time delving into why I made the transition back, but I'll...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we raised $3M for an open source project
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have...
over a year ago
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…
TokyoDev
The Difficulties of Getting a Software Developer Job in Japan in 2023
Given the current climate in tech globally, people often ask me what the current situation in Japan...
a year ago
Given the current climate in tech globally, people often ask me what the current situation in Japan is. Overall, my impression is that it is nowhere as bad as places like the US, but nevertheless I have been hearing stories of developers struggling to get jobs here. In this...
A Beautiful Site
Tips for the aspiring web developer
So you want to be a web developer...excellent choice! It's a very rewarding position that can be a...
over a year ago
So you want to be a web developer...excellent choice! It's a very rewarding position that can be a lot more fun than most other programming jobs. However, before you take the plunge into a career in web development, there are a few things you should probably consider.
A different...
Vadim Kravcenko
Being a good mentor – a developers guide
Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and...
a year ago
Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and illuminate the path ahead. I’ve […]
The post Being a good mentor – a developers guide appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we've launched PostHog user surveys
Today, we’ve announced user surveys are out of beta and in general release, complete with new...
a year ago
Today, we’ve announced user surveys are out of beta and in general release, complete with new pricing . Short version? Pricing is usage-based, with…
Alex MacCaw
The Great CEO Within
It's been a long time coming, but Matt Mochary's book The Great CEO Within is out. I feel very...
over a year ago
It's been a long time coming, but Matt Mochary's book The Great CEO Within is out. I feel very fortunate to be involved in this project. This is the best book I've read on making the journey from founder to CEO.
Josh Collinsworth
Five Ways to Become a Better Designer (That Aren't Design)
There’s vast world of design learning and opportunity right in front of us constantly. All we need...
over a year ago
There’s vast world of design learning and opportunity right in front of us constantly. All we need to do is take the time to notice it and learn from it.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we monetized our open source devtool
So, you’ve decided to build an open-source product. While your choice is highly commendable, the...
over a year ago
So, you’ve decided to build an open-source product. While your choice is highly commendable, the resounding applause from devs on GitHub and Hacker…
Making software...
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
2021-10-15
A great deal of my time working as a...
over a year ago
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
2021-10-15
A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
dthompson
Chickadee 0.8.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development...
over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to
provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers
need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme.
Notable improvements and...
Max Countryman
We Need To Talk About Vercel
Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up....
a year ago
Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up. But in my recent experience, the product and especially customer service, do not.
bt RSS Feed
Prescription Form UI Improvements
Prescription Form UI Improvements
2019-03-13
I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
over a year ago
Prescription Form UI Improvements
2019-03-13
I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn’t bad per se, but it could certainly be improved.
Current design of the...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Keeping track of visited URLs in WebCard
<![CDATA[WebCard has very limited control over the web browser of the host operating system.
It can...
2 months ago
<![CDATA[WebCard has very limited control over the web browser of the host operating system.
It can only command the browser to visit a URL when the user traverses a Web link or executes the Visit URL menu command. But with no precautions the browser would open a new tab for...
dthompson
Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 has been released!
Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme...
over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 has been released!
Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme bindings for the SDL2 C shared
library. The bindings are written in pure Scheme using Guile's foreign
function interface.
New bindings in this...
Liz Denys
Reflections on XOXO 2018
If I actually wrote about XOXO 2018 last weekend like I had intended to do, I would have tried to...
over a year ago
If I actually wrote about XOXO 2018 last weekend like I had intended to do, I would have tried to write an article titled "XOXO strives to be what the internet should strive to be," and I probably would have never finished it. It's not that I don't still think XOXO tries to be...
The History of the...
The Website that Predicted AI
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in...
a month ago
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in predictive technology, driven by sophisticated algorithms that provide real-time recommendations. And it was launched in 1995.
The post The Website that Predicted AI appeared first...
charity.wtf
How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?
Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to...
2 months ago
Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero interest rate phenomenon...
Basta’s Notes
Microwaves piss me off
If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about...
a year ago
If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about microwaves.
Charles Chen
Use TypeScript Record Types for Better Code
TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
over a year ago
TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
Words and Buttons...
Why did I write Geometry for programmers
This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons...
a year ago
This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons has been stagnant for a while though. I have been writing a book. Why? Well, visit and see.
ntietz.com blog
Why do companies hire people to be idle a lot of the time?
The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers.
In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000...
a year ago
The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers.
In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000 software engineers.
That is just mind boggling scale to me.
It's roughly as many people as the whole county I grew up in.
They are paying a lot of engineers.
Some of them do very...
Tinloof - Blog
How to design an accessible carousel
In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally...
8 months ago
In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally accessible carousel for any web project.
Outcome
Carousels in UI are practical interactive elements that efficiently display images or content pieces without taking up too much vertical...
samwho.dev
Language Interoperability From the Ground Up
How does a function in Ruby call a function in C? How does a function in Kotlin
call a function in...
over a year ago
How does a function in Ruby call a function in C? How does a function in Kotlin
call a function in Java?
It's no secret that you can call functions in one programming language from
another. Not only is it possible, it can be done in multiple ways. But how
does it actually...
Engineer’s Codex
4 lessons from software teams that ship fast
Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount...
a year ago
Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount of value or impact a huge number of users. For example, Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers, back in 2011. Examples of teams that ship fast
Steve Klabnik
Removing Turbolinks from Rails 4
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS
2021-04-13
I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan’s...
over a year ago
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS
2021-04-13
I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan’s work on Dribbble and was recently inspired to see if I could replicate one of his awesome icon designs with only HTML & CSS. What was the outcome? I think it’s a half-way decent copy...
A Beautiful Site
BrowserStack: stop using virtual machines for browser testing
Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack,...
over a year ago
Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack, you don't need VMware or VirtualBox. Just enter a URL and instantly test on just about any browser you can think of.
This is legit. It's not just another screenshot service or...
David Heinemeier...
Finished software
One of the driving aspirations behind once.com is the notion that not all software needs to evolve...
12 months ago
One of the driving aspirations behind once.com is the notion that not all software needs to evolve forever. We’ve become so used to digital services being malleable that we’ve confused the possibility of software updates with their necessity. Some software can simply be finished,...
Miguel Carranza
Books I read in 2020
Growing up, I was never an avid reader. I remember I enjoyed some expanded universe Star Wars books....
over a year ago
Growing up, I was never an avid reader. I remember I enjoyed some expanded universe Star Wars books. But that was about it. Even reading The Lord of the Rings or easier to digest books like Harry Potter would be a struggle. It was not until I started getting access to technical...
A Beautiful Site
JSON Feed
JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec,...
over a year ago
JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec, introduced just last week, but it's been getting some major coverage and a number of applications have already started supporting it.
Since Postleaf was built for the modern...
Words and Buttons...
Simple image vectorization
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out...
over a year ago
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out of it. The algorithm describes shows how bilinear interpolation, polynomial approximation, differential analysis, and iterative algorithms work together to solve a practical...
A Smart Bear
Pricing determines your business model
Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured...
over a year ago
Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured out later," because determines your business model today.
macwright.com
Recently
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s
been fun...
a year ago
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s
been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new,
especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from
my childhood has stayed with me, and being...
Epic Web Dev
Preparing for a workshop with Kent C. Dodds (tip)
Full Stack Workshop Series Volume 1 and enhance your web development skills. Get step-by-step...
a year ago
Full Stack Workshop Series Volume 1 and enhance your web development skills. Get step-by-step instructions, resources, and hands-on exercises to level up.
A Smart Bear
Double your productivity without more work or stress
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this...
4 months ago
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.
MMapped blog
Fungible tokens: payment flows
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got...
4 months ago
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got me to learn the language.
It's a functional programming language which targets both the BEAM (Erlang's VM) and JavaScript.
This makes it appealing as a language that can target both...
The Changelog
Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and...
a year ago
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts: In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and...
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operators
A guessing game with C++ operators, context, and disassembly.
over a year ago
A guessing game with C++ operators, context, and disassembly.
Epic Web Dev
Support Responsive Favicons for a Professional Look (tip)
Create a responsive favicon that adapts to the user's system preference for light or dark mode.
a year ago
Create a responsive favicon that adapts to the user's system preference for light or dark mode.
macwright.com
Code-folding JSX elements in CodeMirror
This came up for Val Town - we implemented code folding in our default editor which uses CodeMirror,...
9 months ago
This came up for Val Town - we implemented code folding in our default editor which uses CodeMirror, but wanted it to work with JSX elements, not just functions and control flow statements. It’s not enough to justify a module of its own because CodeMirror’s API is unbelievably...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware August 2024
Last month’s Ware was a peak programming meter driver board made by JC Broadcast, taken from an...
2 months ago
Last month’s Ware was a peak programming meter driver board made by JC Broadcast, taken from an Audix broadcast console. Thanks again to Howie M for contributing the ware! Howie hypothesized that the four mounting holes would be a dead give-away, in his words: The meters, typical...
Paolo Amoroso's...
The faded world: my experience with cataract
<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme....
10 hours ago
<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme. Until cataract came.
In May of 2024 my ophthalmologist confirmed what I surmised: both of my eyes were affected by cataract. It came earlier than my age would suggest but that's...
swyx's site RSS Feed
(incomplete) Getting your O1 Visa as Fast as Possible (2024)
I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience,...
a year ago
I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience, thoughts, and tips for those who may wish to make the same journey. Note that I am not a professional at this, I'm just a guy who recently went through it so dont rely on me for...
macwright.com
Get the text of an uploaded file in Remix by ()
This took way too long to figure out.
The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and...
a year ago
This took way too long to figure out.
The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and .arrayBuffer() methods, which aren’t mentioned on MDN. So, assuming you’re in an action and the argument is args, you can get the body like:
const body = await...
Founder's blog
ChatGPT won't "kill Google" because Google is already dead
I have just conducted an experiment where I forced myself to use Bing's new chat-based search for...
a year ago
I have just conducted an experiment where I forced myself to use Bing's new chat-based search for almost a week, and spoiler alert: I loved it. But I'll get into that later.
Googling without Google
When was the last time you searched Google and found the answer on the...
macwright.com
Thoughts on storing stuff in databases by ()
User preferences should be columns in the users table. Don’t get clever with a json column or...
a year ago
User preferences should be columns in the users table. Don’t get clever with a json column or hstore. When you introduce new preferences, the power of types and default values is worth the headache of managing columns.
Emails should probably be citext, case-insensitive text. But...
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog raises $12 million in funding led by GV and Y Combinator
(Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in...
over a year ago
(Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in funding and major new features - including plugins…
Irrational...
Interviewing engineering executives.
Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more...
a year ago
Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more important to discuss the opposite question: how should you interview and evaluate Engineering executives? As an Engineering executive, you may not directly run one of these searches, but...
Evan Jones -...
Postgres large JSON value query performance
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and...
over a year ago
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 kiB, due to how...
Vadim Kravcenko
Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations
First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for...
a year ago
First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for Developers”, but then who […]
The post Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Words and Buttons...
Arctangent scale. It's like the logarithmic scale but infinite
With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it...
over a year ago
With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it but the whole function.
TokyoDev
TokyoDev has a new logo!
Over the last four years, I’ve been helping TokyoDev with UX, design, and frontend development. One...
11 months ago
Over the last four years, I’ve been helping TokyoDev with UX, design, and frontend development. One project I’ve been working on is improving our branding. Today, I’m delighted to introduce the results of it: TokyoDev’s new logo.
![Our new...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The macOS App Icon Book” IRL
Guess what I received in the mail today?
You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it...
11 months ago
Guess what I received in the mail today?
You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it anyway: The macOS App Icon Book.
(If you didn’t catch it, I’ve written previously about my contribution to its prequel.)
This one got funded on Kickstarter a few months back and,...
Liz Denys
Bauhaus spoon rest, 2024
Bauhaus design / negative space / boundaries that are clear on paper
6 months ago
Bauhaus design / negative space / boundaries that are clear on paper
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Two Quick Tips When Building With React Router
I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I...
10 months ago
I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I had known when I started.
So I’m writing them down in case anyone else is about to start a React Router app.
1. Flat Action Data When Using JSON
If you’re submitting JSON,...
A Smart Bear
How many things should there be? (Hint: Not 10)
If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list...
a year ago
If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list probably doesn't have the correct number of things.
bt RSS Feed
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback
2020-12-04
Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
over a year ago
Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback
2020-12-04
Sometimes websites and web apps might require content to be “injected” via Javascript. I should mention that I am strongly against this practice - but often this kind of thing is out of one’s hands. So, the least I can do is...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Github Copilot suggesting links
A potentially very useful but probably unintended and unpolished feature of GitHub Copilot is that...
a year ago
A potentially very useful but probably unintended and unpolished feature of GitHub Copilot is that it can suggest related links. That is, if you paste a link, then on a new line type https:// and wait for a second, Copilot often suggests a link or two. The results, at the moment,...
A Beautiful Site
The Term "Headless Component" is a Misnomer
You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid,...
a year ago
You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid, accessible components without any styles. A clean slate to style from scratch! But the structure (bones) and logic (head) are there. You're mostly adding styles.
They should be called...
David Heinemeier...
Merchants of complexity
It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course,...
4 months ago
It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course, everyone says they want something simple, but the way they buy reveals that they usually don't.
This is the secret that the merchants of complexity have long since figured out. That...
Epic Web Dev
Web Application Testing (workshop)
Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing...
a year ago
Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing covers unit testing, E2E, integration testing, and more!
Alex Meub
Recreating the Windows BSOD
I thought it would be fun to recreate the iconic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Photoshop. I...
over a year ago
I thought it would be fun to recreate the iconic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Photoshop. I found the classic DOS system font and was able recreate a pixel-perfect BSOD image using it.
You can see a rendering of the classic BSOD in all it’s pixelated glory here and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Day I Became A Software Engineer
A single mindset shift that changed my entire attitude to software.
over a year ago
A single mindset shift that changed my entire attitude to software.
macwright.com
Recently
Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and
will write about some retrospectives...
a year ago
Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and
will write about some retrospectives on how the business and such
have gone, but for now, let’s keep this traditional, a good old-fashioned
Recently.
Reading
This month’s theme, looking back on it, was feminism, and...
Josh Comeau's blog
Building a Magical 3D Button
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and...
over a year ago
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
Alex Meub
Install JSDOM On Windows
JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation...
over a year ago
JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation of the DOM that makes it super easy to work with pages retrieved from the Internet. Unfortunately, JSDOM relies on a node package called Contextify that is difficult to get working...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 4: Gratitude and emotions
Wow, my RC batch is one-third done.
I've just finished my fourth week, and there are eight weeks...
over a year ago
Wow, my RC batch is one-third done.
I've just finished my fourth week, and there are eight weeks left.
Time is flying by.
I feel like I've settled into a decent groove.
Taking a step back, it is setting in how much I've learned so far and how much I've accomplished.
In these four...
Liz Denys
To the pretty pitter, pitter, patter
I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically...
over a year ago
I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically enjoy the process but don't walk in the rain because they dislike arriving at their destinations wet. However, unless I have something of a very pressing importance at the other end...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Building the future of game analytics - An interview with PureSkill.gg CTO, Evan Sosenko
Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations, where we chat to our contributors...
over a year ago
Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations, where we chat to our contributors and users. This time, we speak to Evan Sosenko, Co…
somenice
Radioactive film lenses and Geiger counter Kit
Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that...
over a year ago
Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In the years following that tragic event, flotsam began arriving on the Pacific West Coast. Volunteers making great effort to return...
Joel Gascoigne
10 lessons from my startup journey so far
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over a year ago
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It’s almost exactly a year since I started documenting my startup lessons
learned through this blog, and since my first post last November, I’ve blogged
26 times. I’ve been lucky enough to have...
alexwlchan
Preserving pixels in Paris
Last month, I was in Paris for the IIPC Web Archiving Conference, a two-day event to discuss the...
7 months ago
Last month, I was in Paris for the IIPC Web Archiving Conference, a two-day event to discuss the preservation of websites and social media.
It was my first time attending, and I was there with both a professional and a personal interest.
This post has some thoughts and photos...
Ink & Switch
Summit 010 Berlin
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
over a year ago
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.22.0
PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual bug squashing. Community MVP The community MVP…
bt RSS Feed
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
2020-03-18
An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
over a year ago
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
2020-03-18
An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
Alex Meub
Building a 3D Printer Enclosure
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would...
over a year ago
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Lessons in DDD from building an e-commerce platform
In a recent conversation with some colleagues, we were talking about how startups make the trade-off...
11 months ago
In a recent conversation with some colleagues, we were talking about how startups make the trade-off between design, domain-driven specifically, in favor of speed. They intentionally take on debt, technical and otherwise, to move faster.
I wasn’t in favour of employing DDD in a...
David Heinemeier...
Why I retired from the tech crusades
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer...
6 months ago
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting to convert the...
dthompson
How to apply Hilltop's Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 English patch on Linux
Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop
released an English patch for...
a year ago
Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop
released an English patch for Boku no Natsuyasumi
2, which
finally makes the Japan exclusive PS2 game accessible to us English
speaking folks. The README explains how to apply the patch on Windows
or via a web...
The Codist
Puzzled Why Instagram Fails on Safari
I wanted to look at Instagram to see if every art hashtag was still overwhelmed with terrible AI...
a year ago
I wanted to look at Instagram to see if every art hashtag was still overwhelmed with terrible AI art, but today on Safari, all I get for every page is:
It works on every other browser I have. But why?
In the console are two errors, found and placed there
Steve Klabnik
Run Rails with custom patches
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA)
The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. It then retired it in 2014. What...
a year ago
The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. It then retired it in 2014. What happened and why?
swyx's site RSS Feed
Revolutionizing Audio with Descript and Temporal
A case study I published for my work at Temporal
over a year ago
A case study I published for my work at Temporal
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Building software to last forever
I recently received the following email regarding Bear:
Hi,
I am a huge fan and love the service as...
over a year ago
I recently received the following email regarding Bear:
Hi,
I am a huge fan and love the service as it is.
However, I am curious how the continuation of the service is guaranteed.
- Joe
This is a great question, and one I have put a lot of thought into, even going so far as...
the singularity is...
Wireheading City
I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line:
There’s a fine line...
a year ago
I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line:
There’s a fine line that defines civilization.
Several beggars approached me on the street, and I didn’t give them anything. I suspect they would be surprised to learn that we have worse beggars in...
Nelson's Weblog
What are passkeys?
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just
questions. I believe passkeys are...
a year ago
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just
questions. I believe passkeys are a
great idea but the tech world is doing a terrible job explaining
them. Someone really needs to explain how passkeys work in Internet
products. Existing
descriptions aren’t sinking...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q1
The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be...
11 months ago
The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be challenging when selecting the right tool We are approaching a period where the traditional boundaries between between databases, datalakes, and data warehouses are overlapping. As...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Small Web
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the...
a year ago
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative.
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What is Kagi Small Web?
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To begin with, while there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers...
A Beautiful Site
How to File a Bug Report
They say there's no such thing as bug-free code. When problems arise, creating a minimal...
a year ago
They say there's no such thing as bug-free code. When problems arise, creating a minimal reproduction will give you the best chance of a speedy resolution.
When a potential bug is discovered, many developers' first reaction is to file an issue. That's great, but please exercise...
Alex MacCaw
Advice to my younger self
I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in...
over a year ago
I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in full:
If you could call yourself 10 years ago and speak for a minute, what would you say?
That's the thought that was going through my mind when I got
samwho.dev
Load Balancing
.simulation {
width: 100%;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items:...
a year ago
.simulation {
width: 100%;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
margin-bottom: 2.5em;
}
.load-balancer {
color: black;
font-weight: bold;
}
.request {
color: #04BF8A;
font-weight: bold;
}
.server {
color:...
Miguel Carranza
Effective code review
Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most...
over a year ago
Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most tech companies1. However, it is not always implemented as well as it should. In this post, I will describe some practices that I try to follow when opening pull requests, and that...
Steve Klabnik
You're probably learning a technology in its seventh season, not its pilot
a year ago
Founder's blog
System.Drawing vs SkiaSharp benchmark
This is a ridiculously short post for .NET devs looking to compare System.Drawing with SkiaSharp...
a year ago
This is a ridiculously short post for .NET devs looking to compare System.Drawing with SkiaSharp (the fastest open-source alternative).
I'm currently building a new pet project - a free tool, that will allow bloggers and webmasters generate open-graph "cover images" via...
Joel Gascoigne
What is failure for you?
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over a year ago
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One thing I realised over the holiday period is that my definition of failure in
a couple of things had changed considerably since the year before.
In particular, in the year of 2012 I built up...
Nelson's Weblog
My surprise brother
I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave
birth to him in 1959 and...
over a year ago
I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave
birth to him in 1959 and immediately gave him up for adoption. My mother
died two decades ago so details are hard to come by. My brother worked for
years to find us. I'm glad he succeeded! And I feel sad...
Joel on Software
A Dusting of Gamification
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe...
over a year ago
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe a dusting of gamification, most of it around reputation. Read more "A Dusting of Gamification"
Tinloof - Blog
JavaScript’s Maps For Better Performance
This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for...
over a year ago
This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for such a source, please check out MDN.
In general, the Map data structure is useful when we want to retrieve/add/delete values through a set of unique keys.
One of the...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Quick Tip: docx is a zip Archive
Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached...
over a year ago
Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached media. Super useful, everyone should know it!
When I tell my colleagues, friends, or students about it, they don't take me seriously the first time. So, here we go again. If you have...
Ferd.ca
A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed
2023/01/01
A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed
When I first started my forever project, a peer to...
a year ago
2023/01/01
A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed
When I first started my forever project, a peer to peer file sync software using Interval Tree Clocks, I wanted to build it right.
That meant property-based testing everything, specifying the protocol fully, dealing with error...
Vadim Kravcenko
Habits of great software engineers
The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While...
a year ago
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.
Tinloof - Blog
How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 1)
This series of articles is made out of two parts:
In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user...
over a year ago
This series of articles is made out of two parts:
In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS.
In the second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
Irrational...
Engineering strategy notes.
Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy,
and as part of that have started...
a year ago
Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy,
and as part of that have started re-reading previous resources
on the topic, and looking for new things to read while I refine
my point of view on what makes for good engineering strategy.
The best introduction to my...
Darek Kay
Website themes with uBlock Origin
Browser extensions like Stylish, Stylus or Tampermonkey make it possible to create custom website...
10 months ago
Browser extensions like Stylish, Stylus or Tampermonkey make it possible to create custom website themes/skins. At the same time, I try to lower the number of add-ons that I use, mostly due to security and performance reasons. Interestingly, the uBlock Origin ad blocker can...
markround.com
Apollo Vampire V1200 Review
After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2...
over a year ago
After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2 accelerator! Since then, my Amiga has had a new lease of life so I thought I’d write an update covering all the stuff I would have wanted to know while I was waiting for the package to...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Search - New Features
We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three...
over a year ago
We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three months.
Evan Jones -...
Postgres large sub-string query performance
Following up on my last post about large JSON queries, I also benchmarked sub-string queries on...
over a year ago
Following up on my last post about large JSON queries, I also benchmarked sub-string queries on large variable-length strings. I wanted to check if sub-string queries might be faster than HSTORE or JSONB key lookups. I tested both binary (BYTEA) and Unicode text (TEXT)....
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Powering a blog with Notion and Netlify
The last iteration of this blog was a Go program running on Digital Ocean’s cheapest VM...
over a year ago
The last iteration of this blog was a Go program running on Digital Ocean’s cheapest VM ($5/month).
Recently I’ve made 2 big changes:
I converted it to a static site hosted on Netlify
I used Notion for writing the posts instead of writing markdown files in a text editor
Moving to...
Julia Evans
Lima: a nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section.
A little while ago I started...
a year ago
Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section.
A little while ago I started using a Mac, and one of my biggest
frustrations with it is that often I need to run Linux-specific software. For
example, the nginx playground I
posted about the other day only...
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog raises $15 million Series B for open source product analytics
Jun 10th, 2021 – PostHog , the open source product analytics company, today announced $15 million...
over a year ago
Jun 10th, 2021 – PostHog , the open source product analytics company, today announced $15 million in fresh funding and major new free features for…
macwright.com
Web pages and video games
An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are...
8 months ago
An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are so amazing and fast?” I’ve thought about it more than I’d like. Anyway, here are some reasons:
Web pages are just-in-time delivered, with no installation required. Modern video...
Julia Evans
Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server
I started using Mastodon back in November, and it’s the Twitter alternative
where I’ve been spending...
a year ago
I started using Mastodon back in November, and it’s the Twitter alternative
where I’ve been spending most of my time recently, mostly because the Fediverse
is where a lot of the Linux nerds seem to be right now.
I’ve found Mastodon quite a bit more confusing than Twitter because...
TokyoDev
My experience with Vulcanus in Japan, a training programme for EU engineering students
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter...
a year ago
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter the country, such as a working holiday visa, English teaching, or getting hired by one of the [many wonderful companies](http://www.tokyodev.com/companies), posting jobs on...
Tinloof - Blog
Images and videos on Sanity
This article is outdated. You can read the Managing Tinloof-powered websites article...
over a year ago
This article is outdated. You can read the Managing Tinloof-powered websites article instead.
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Images and videos have to be properly configured to rank in search engine result pages and not impact negatively page speed.
A Smart Bear
When being “first” is not a competitive advantage
Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a product that does nothing...
over a year ago
Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a product that does nothing new? On the surface being “first” sounds impressive, implying innovation and leadership. But reality is different.
Don Melton
How not to blog
First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping...
over a year ago
First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping your audience riveted in anticipation.
Computer Things
TLA from first principles
No Newsletter next week
I'll be speaking at USENIX SRECon!
TLA from first principles
I'm working on...
2 months ago
No Newsletter next week
I'll be speaking at USENIX SRECon!
TLA from first principles
I'm working on v0.5 of Logic for Programmers. In the process of revising the "System Modeling" chapter, I stumbled on a great way to explain the temporal logic of actions that TLA+ is based on....
A Smart Bear
Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same...
a year ago
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
Words and Buttons...
Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting
“Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are...
over a year ago
“Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are enough. And it's “differential” because it aims to highlight the difference between lexemes. Ideally, the smaller the lexical difference, the greater the color difference should be.
...
alexwlchan
Doodling with the Mac’s command icon
The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years.
It was chosen by...
5 months ago
The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years.
It was chosen by legendary icon designer Susan Kare, who picked it from a symbol dictionary – this shape was already being used in Sweden to highlight an interesting feature on a map.
It’s an...
David Heinemeier...
For what it'll make of you
I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints...
3 months ago
I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints on a treadmill. They make you reach for a million dollars in revenue, celebrate for a second, and then turn the chase to five million the minute after. No thanks. But specific,...
Joel Gascoigne
Why I'm helping startup founders
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over a year ago
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Last month I wrote about my discovery that helping others makes me happier
[https://joel.is/post/26003263041/want-to-be-happy-and-successful-bring-happiness-to]
than spending the time seeing a...
Jibran’s Perspective
I have not failed enough
I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast...
11 months ago
I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast and started to think about how often I had failed in the past few years. The first answer was - not too much. I couldn’t think of too many instances of where I had “failed”.
This was...
David Heinemeier...
Every generation needs their own apocalypse
Danish 8th, 9th, and 10th graders vote in a mock election every year in Denmark. The results for...
10 months ago
Danish 8th, 9th, and 10th graders vote in a mock election every year in Denmark. The results for 2024 were a startling refutation of the idea that young people must be inherently left-leaning. The dominating winner was Liberal Alliance, a center-right party that speaks to the...
Liz Denys
Cocoa brownies
Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice...
over a year ago
Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice Medrich's ingredient list is nearly flawless. (Okay, okay, I can never truly stick to a recipe as written. Here, I prefer a little more vanilla extract and like to put a pinch of flaky...
A Beautiful Site
SimpleImage 3.0
Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for...
over a year ago
Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for working with images.
Today, version 3.0 has landed, and there's a lot to love about it.
Overview #
Here's how it works at a glance:
try {
// Create a new SimpleImage object
$image =...
Liz Denys
Has Baby Yoda been engaging in Twitter 'platform manipulation?' and the broad brush of Twitter's...
Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and...
over a year ago
Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and spam" according to their Instagram. Twitter's policy on platform manipulation and spam allows for "using Twitter pseudonymously or as a parody, commentary, or fan account," as...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Nabbing macOS Icon Artwork
I keep a personal collection of beautiful macOS app icons, which might make you ask: “How does he...
4 weeks ago
I keep a personal collection of beautiful macOS app icons, which might make you ask: “How does he get those icons?”
Apps in the App Store
For apps in the Mac App Store, I have my ways. I don’t necessarily want to write about them because I’m semi-afraid Apple would frown on my...
Acko.net
Sub-pixel Distance Transform
High quality font rendering for WebGPU
This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited...
a year ago
High quality font rendering for WebGPU
This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited browser support. For the full experience, use Chrome on Windows or Mac, or a developer build on other platforms.
In this post I will describe Use.GPU's text rendering, which uses...
somenice
Wooden Macropad
What is it? It’s an open source electronics kit, the Adafruit Macropad, embedded in a solid block of...
over a year ago
What is it? It’s an open source electronics kit, the Adafruit Macropad, embedded in a solid block of quarter-sawn tigerwood. What can it do? It’s a programable HID keyboard with OLED display and rotary encoder running CircuitPython. Which is a hardware specific, light-weight port...
somenice
Procedural “Trees” using Blender Geometry Nodes
I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with Blender Geometry and Shader Nodes.Specifically here using...
over a year ago
I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with Blender Geometry and Shader Nodes.Specifically here using Instances on Points. I started with a 60 x 60 grid of curves, made into spirals and animated with a Noise texture. This ended up creating 8.3 Million faces and took 12 hours to...
Basta’s Notes
The rough edges of Terraform that I awkwardly stumble over
First and foremost, thanks to everyone who has subscribed recently. I know I’ve been quieter than...
a year ago
First and foremost, thanks to everyone who has subscribed recently. I know I’ve been quieter than usual. I actually have a number of nearly-complete drafts ready to go, but each is waiting on something. Two of them are posts that I think y’all will hopefully enjoy very much!
A Beautiful Site
Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP
This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote...
over a year ago
This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote webpage.
$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/");
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data =...
Making software...
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
over a year ago
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
Making software...
Cut Your Forms in Half
Cut Your Forms in Half
2019-05-09
Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
over a year ago
Cut Your Forms in Half
2019-05-09
Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don't pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible.
Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
bt RSS Feed
Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux
Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux
2023-04-25
Users who work with git patches...
a year ago
Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux
2023-04-25
Users who work with git patches through email most likely use a terminal-based program such as aerc or mutt. CLI email clients tend to have built-in support for easily applying patches directly to their local...
Liz Denys
Things I've learned about biking for transportation in NYC
I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier...
over a year ago
I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier person. That said, it took a while to go from very comfortable riding a bike around the car-free loop inside Prospect Park to no longer feeling extremely anxious riding on NYC...
macwright.com
How are we supposed to do tooltips now? by
I’ve been working on oldfashioned.tech, which is sort of a testbed to learn about htmx and the other...
11 months ago
I’ve been working on oldfashioned.tech, which is sort of a testbed to learn about htmx and the other paths: vanilla CSS instead of Tailwind, server-rendering for as much as possible.
How are tooltips and modals supposed to work outside of the framework world? What the Web...
A Beautiful Site
Access pages without the php extension using .htaccess
There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight...
over a year ago
There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight forward. It allows you to access /any-page.php by simply going to /any-page. Just place the following into your .htaccess file (and make sure that mod_rewrite is...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Go beyond eslint limits with these 3 tricks
My current obsession with statically checking JS code got me to appreciate eslint even more....
over a year ago
My current obsession with statically checking JS code got me to appreciate eslint even more. Recently, I've shown you how to use no-restricted-syntax to lint almost anything. Still, like any tool, eslint has its limits — often a precise rule bends eslint too much, and is not...
Dan Slimmon
Huh! as a signal
We can never predict with certainty what the next system failure will be. But we can predict,...
a year ago
We can never predict with certainty what the next system failure will be. But we can predict, because painful experience has taught us, that some or all of the causes of that failure will be surprising.
We can use that!
Josh Comeau's blog
Delightful React File/Directory Structure
How should we structure components and other files in our React apps? I've iterated my way to a...
over a year ago
How should we structure components and other files in our React apps? I've iterated my way to a solution I'm really happy with. In this blog post, I'll share how it works, what the tradeoffs are, and how I mitigate them.
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How we’re making PostHog deployments easier
When PostHog was born in 2020, it was a simple Python application (Django + Celery) backed by a...
over a year ago
When PostHog was born in 2020, it was a simple Python application (Django + Celery) backed by a PostgreSQL datastore. Troubleshooting was easy, while…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Treating the Symptoms
If you haven’t seen it yet, the folks behind The Browser Company recently introduced a new app...
10 months ago
If you haven’t seen it yet, the folks behind The Browser Company recently introduced a new app called “Arc Search”. Its key feature? It’ll browse the web for you.
What happened? “Surfing the web” used to be — and still can be — the funnest part about being on the web!
How did...
Tinloof - Blog
Why we prefer Sanity over Contentful
In this article, we'll explain 5 reasons why we prefer Sanity over Contentful Headless CMS.
over a year ago
In this article, we'll explain 5 reasons why we prefer Sanity over Contentful Headless CMS.
Cognitive...
Meet Samantha
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-7b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-13b
https://h...
a year ago
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-7b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-13b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-33b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-falcon-7b
https://huggingface.co/datasets/ehartford/samantha-data/blob/main/samantha-1.0.json
I have...
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Working The Reverse 9 to 5
Having weird sleeping hours is working out... very well for me.
over a year ago
Having weird sleeping hours is working out... very well for me.
Tony Finch's blog
Introducing BIND9 dnssec-policy
Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature
to sign a DNS zone that is...
7 months ago
Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature
to sign a DNS zone that is currently unsigned.
I am in the process of migrating my DNS zones from BIND’s old
auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy, and writing a blog post
about it. These introductory sections...
macwright.com
Playing with ActivityPub
ActivityPub, WebFinger,
and Mastodon
are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter.
It’s...
over a year ago
ActivityPub, WebFinger,
and Mastodon
are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter.
It’s anyone’s guess how this all shakes out. As an
active user of Twitter, it’ll be sad if it goes away.
But in the meantime, let’s have some fun with ActivityPub.
ActivityPub
Under the...
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Networking Essentials: Router Design
A small detour into Router Hardware!
over a year ago
A small detour into Router Hardware!
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fave New Podcasts in 2021
My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also...
over a year ago
My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also pick up on best of the best from 2020.
Confessions of a...
The CAP Theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something
No clustering algorithm is perfect and you must make a trade-off.
a month ago
No clustering algorithm is perfect and you must make a trade-off.
Maggie Appleton
Speculative Calendar Events
11 months ago
Florian Bellmann |...
The late night coding session
A small reflection on the joy of late night coding session
a year ago
A small reflection on the joy of late night coding session
A Smart Bear
Scars
Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
3 weeks ago
Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
Making software...
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu
2019-04-26
I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible,...
over a year ago
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu
2019-04-26
I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible, while still maintaining the original UI concept. Let's build out a demo example with a simple menu dropdown element.
Interesting facts about our final CSS menu:
Total weight 121 bytes...
TokyoDev
Transferring from the Philippines to be a QA Engineer in Japan
Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace...
a year ago
Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace Icay](https://www.tokyodev.com/authors/mary-grygjeanne-grace-icay) (Gray in the [TokyoDev Discord community](https://discord.gg/seUNe38YgV)) managed to do it. She originally worked...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Importance of Learning CSS
I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to...
over a year ago
I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to “outrun” CSS, this article explores why leaning in and going deeper can be a tremendous boon for your development life and your career.
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: React
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand.
In this post, we’ll be answering the question: what is React?
We’ll look into its origins, usage, explain key terminology and also cover how and why...
Epic Web Dev
Prisma Typed SQL Queries (tip)
3 months ago
Josh Collinsworth
Understanding the Difference Between Image and Vector File Types
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences...
over a year ago
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences between various popular format types commonly used for graphic design applications. So I decided I’d create a resource that’s hopefully a handy reference on the matter of discerning...
Maggie Appleton
A Journey into Vue-Router
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Subversive Hyperlink
The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.
I send you a link and as long as you have an...
10 months ago
The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.
I send you a link and as long as you have an agent, i.e. a browser (or a mere HTTP client), you can access the content at that link.
This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of...
Stephen Wolfram...
Aggregation and Tiling as Multicomputational Processes
The Importance of Multiway Systems It’s all about systems where there can in effect be many possible...
a year ago
The Importance of Multiway Systems It’s all about systems where there can in effect be many possible paths of history. In a typical standard computational system like a cellular automaton, there’s always just one path, defined by evolution from one state to the next. But in a...
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Engineering AI Agents - OpenAI DevDay Singapore talk
this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore.
a month ago
this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore.
Josh Collinsworth
Follow-up: the Glove80 after six months
A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split...
8 months ago
A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split keyboard has been after about six months of daily use.
ntietz.com blog
If software engineering roles were chess pieces, what would they be?
Chess is booming, and tech is burning to the ground.
It's inevitable, soon, that Chess is going to...
a year ago
Chess is booming, and tech is burning to the ground.
It's inevitable, soon, that Chess is going to acquire the entire tech industry.
And when Chess acquires us, they'll replace us and take our software engineering jobs1.
Then we'll be stuck playing their game, and we'll be...
TokyoDev
All code is technical debt
Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward...
over a year ago
Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward Cunningham](http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor), is the idea that you can gain a temporary speed boost by rushing software development, at the cost of slowing down future development.
This acts like a loan. With a loan,...
HTMHell
Test-driven HTML and accessibility
by David Luhr
When I started writing unit tests and following a test-driven development (TDD)...
a year ago
by David Luhr
When I started writing unit tests and following a test-driven development (TDD) workflow, I was stoked with the immediate feedback and confidence I gained in every line of JavaScript I wrote.
TDD improved my software design with simpler, more predictable code. It...
Daniel Marino
Making Generative Art
I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he...
11 months ago
I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he was, but more so with the work he was doing with generative art.
I had never heard of generative art before, but I immediately fell in love with the concept of it. I like to draw,...
macwright.com
Remix notes
Val Town switched to Remix as a web framework a little over a year ago. Here are some...
9 months ago
Val Town switched to Remix as a web framework a little over a year ago. Here are some reflections:
The Remix versioning scheme is a joy. They gradually roll out features under feature flags, so you have lots of time to upgrade.
Compared to what seems like chaos over in...
David Heinemeier...
The benefit of seniority ought to be bandwidth
Juniors are judged on effort, seniors are judged on outcomes. That’s a common and useful heuristic...
11 months ago
Juniors are judged on effort, seniors are judged on outcomes. That’s a common and useful heuristic for evaluating employees. It neatly separates productivity from effectiveness, and places a premium on the latter. But the biggest benefit of this distinction ought to be of the...
Steve Klabnik
"C is not how the computer works" can lead to inefficient code
over a year ago
Alex Meub
The Best Games Ever Made
This is a list of the top five computer games ever made. These are
games that you should most...
over a year ago
This is a list of the top five computer games ever made. These are
games that you should most definitely play if you have any
interest in playing games.
Fallout 2 (1998)
Fallout 2 is my favorite game of all time. It’s truly a masterpiece. It expanded on everything good about...
Dan Slimmon
Interviewing engineers for diagnostic skills
In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent...
10 months ago
In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent building things. So we never forget to interview for skills at building stuff. Sometimes we ask candidates to write code on the fly. Other times we ask them to whiteboard out a sensible...
The Changelog
See The World Through the Eyes of a Child, and You Are Free
Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Those who live in thanksgiving daily,...
over a year ago
Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Those who live in thanksgiving daily, however, have a way of opening their eyes and seeing the wonders and beauties of this world as though seeing them for the first time. – Joseph Wirthlin Today is about dirt. I had to...
Blog - Bitfield...
Rust error handling: Option & Result
The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these
gracefully and safely in our...
6 months ago
The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these
gracefully and safely in our Rust programs? Let’s introduce two of every
Rust programmer’s favourite types: Option and Result.
A Beautiful Site
Getting it right
To my awesome users:
I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes,...
over a year ago
To my awesome users:
I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes, the betas were pretty awesome, but they weren't what I wanted them to be in terms of design, code, and function. I can do better, and you deserve nothing less than my very best.
The...
Joel Gascoigne
Focus on the line, not the dot
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Yesterday I...
over a year ago
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*
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Yesterday I noticed the Who’s Hiring?
[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617] thread pop up again on Hacker
News. If you’re hiring, it’s a great place to share that fact. Since around half
a...
Elad Blog
Video & transcript: Apoorva Metha, founder & former CEO, Instacart
Full video & transcript from Fireside chat with Apoorva Metha
a year ago
Full video & transcript from Fireside chat with Apoorva Metha
Jibran’s Perspective
Bootstrap with Ruby on Rails 7
If you have a brand new RoR 7 project that you created with the defaults by running rails new...
over a year ago
If you have a brand new RoR 7 project that you created with the defaults by running rails new <PROJECT> then you can safely follow the following steps to get Bootstrap 5 installed in your project.
Install gems
Add the following to your Gemfile and run bundle install.
gem...
Josh Comeau's blog
What The Heck, z-index??
The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the...
over a year ago
The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the number, the element never rises to the top! In this article, we explore stacking contexts, and see how they can thwart our efforts to use z-index. We'll also learn how to use this...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses
MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are...
over a year ago
MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are available on Vimeo but not well indexed. They have a better index (and another here) on their website, but also not great.
This is a list of videos and a bit of info about each...
Darek Kay
Running Storybook from a separate folder
After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder...
over a year ago
After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder next to the actual app:
📁 project
├─ 📁 app
| ├─ 📁 src
| └─ 📄 package.json
└─ 📁 storybook
├─ 📁 .storybook
| ├─ 📄 main.js
| └─ 📄 preview.js
└─ 📄...
Epic Web Dev
Only use GET and POST (tip)
Learn about the limitations of using HTTP methods other than GET and POST for form submissions and...
a year ago
Learn about the limitations of using HTTP methods other than GET and POST for form submissions and how it can affect the user experience.
Joel Gascoigne
The joys and benefits of working as a distributed team
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Buffer is a...
over a year ago
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Buffer is a fully distributed team. It’s a decision
[https://joel.is/post/54284926855/questions-i-ask-myself-about-working-as-distributed]
I had to make at the end of 2012, and it’s interesting...
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.2 released
I have made
a new release of nsnotifyd,
a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages
and...
3 weeks ago
I have made
a new release of nsnotifyd,
a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages
and runs a script when one of your zones changes.
This nsnotifyd-2.2 release includes a new feature:
nsnotify can now send NOTIFY messages from a specific source address
Thanks to Adam...
Alice GG
Atlas: Declarative schemas for SQL databases
Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases.
In many...
a year ago
Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases.
In many cases, teams end up keeping a bunch of timestamped .sql files and automatically running them in order.
While this work, it doesn’t scale well: the more developers you have working...
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