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Confessions of a...
Celebrating 2^13 Subscribers & My Birthday I started this Substack on 23rd April, 2024 from 0 subscribers with a dream of writing deeply...
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I started this Substack on 23rd April, 2024 from 0 subscribers with a dream of writing deeply technical articles and making a living.
Dan Slimmon
Platform teams don’t need to act like companies Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search...
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Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search Team provides a Search service and its “customers” are the teams whose code consumes that service. The Developer Productivity Team’s product is a suite of tools for managing local...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Upcoming changes to the discovery feed Bear's discovery feed improvements and a call for feedback
11 months ago
A small freedom area...
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil, the...
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Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil, the Excalidraw font. That triggered me all sorts of emotions, ranging from laugh to total incredulity. I initially thought the root cause was a random derping from Valve but the Internet...
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Visual Sum of Cubes
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to...
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At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to go along with what looked like fraud. They obliged in two out of three cases, landed in hot water, and now face jail time. A reminder why it’s never a good idea to go along with...
macwright.com
patch-package can bail you out of some bad situations by Let’s say you’re running some web application and suddenly you hit a bug in one of your...
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Let’s say you’re running some web application and suddenly you hit a bug in one of your dependencies. It’s all deployed, lots of people are seeing the downtime, but you can’t just push an update because the bug is in something you’ve installed from npm. Remember patch-package....
Joel Gascoigne
My morning routine as a remote CEO and why it’s always changing Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Working remotely and having the opportunity to...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Working remotely and having the opportunity to work from home, coffee shops, coworking spaces, or wherever else I might feel the most productive, means that I can design my own mornings because they don’t necessarily need to be...
Making software...
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
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Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages: libnettle6 libhogweed4 After...
A Beautiful Site
On Using Web Component Libraries We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has...
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We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has components, Vue has components, Angular has components…it's just how we've always used them. Because of that, people tend to refer to Lit and FAST Element as frameworks, but they’re not....
bt RSS Feed
Plain Text Emails, Please Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most...
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Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn’t this same approach...
Eric Bailey
Accessibility annotation kits only annotate An uncomfortable truth is that the vast majority of access-related issues are created in the design...
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An uncomfortable truth is that the vast majority of access-related issues are created in the design phase. Accessibility annotation kits help tackle this problem, and in doing so lower the downstream issues that would be created without their presence. This is to say that I...
macwright.com
Playing with bikeshare data, part one Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a...
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Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a datapoint for each of the roughly 2,090 stations with numbers for how many bikes are available or broken, and how many bikes are electric. It’s a long-term project that combines my...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: As concrete as possible programming How far can we push programming away from symbol manipulation and into the act of drawing?
a year ago
Dan Cowell
Deadlines Work If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain,...
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If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain, eyes burning with sunblock, sweat and ocean spray, in sub-10°C conditions, I would have called you a filthy liar. Then yesterday happened. It was meant to be
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS...
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Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn. His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS. His post actually...
Steve Klabnik
I'm making it dead simple to contribute to Ruby's documentation
over a year ago
Quentin Santos
Linux Pipes are Slow Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have...
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10 months ago
Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have included errata, but the results might not be reliable, so take this with pinch of salt! vmsplice is too fast Some programs use a particular system call “vmsplice” to move data faster...
David Heinemeier...
Apple does AI as Microsoft did mobile When the iPhone first appeared in 2007, Microsoft was sitting pretty with their mobile strategy....
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When the iPhone first appeared in 2007, Microsoft was sitting pretty with their mobile strategy. They'd been early to the market with Windows CE, they were fast-following the iPod with their Zune. They also had the dominant operating system, the dominant office package, and...
Nelson's Weblog
No more talking to politicians I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant...
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I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant battle. Now I will no longer accept their calls. Unfortunately my home phone number is ruined. Between scams and politicians I never answer my phone unless I recognize the caller...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, June 2023 The ware for June 2023 is shown below. This ware should be possible to match to an exact model...
over a year ago
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The ware for June 2023 is shown below. This ware should be possible to match to an exact model number, based on this photo alone — if not simply because in its era there were fewer consumer electronics devices to choose from. I tested the image against Google Image search and...
Maggie Appleton
Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born? A tiny tool to calculate when your baby might arrive
3 months ago
samwho.dev
Reservoir Sampling header h1 { padding: 0; margin-top: 0.2rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; } button { ...
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header h1 { padding: 0; margin-top: 0.2rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; } button { margin: 0.5rem; padding: 0.5rem 1rem; background-color: #444444; color: white; border: none; border-radius: 8px; cursor: pointer; touch-action:...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.3.0 Another shiny new integration - PostHog now plays nicely with Android! Like what you see and...
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Another shiny new integration - PostHog now plays nicely with Android! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. Release notes…
Nelson's Weblog
Restic Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local...
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Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local and remote options. It is well documented, easy to set up, secure, and quite fast. It’s a very professional product. I am now backing up all my Linux systems with it. Note it’s a...
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You're Allowed To Make Your Own Tools Making personal side projects for fun and profit.
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Date me if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
6 months ago
Yale E360
Paper review: Concurrency Control Performance Modeling Another week, another paper! This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control...
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Another week, another paper! This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control Performance Modeling" by Rakesh Agrawal, Michael J. Carey, and Miron Livny. It was 46 pages, and I had a little trouble finding the whole paper—many of the Google Scholar links had...
Words and Buttons...
Trippy polynomials in arctangent scale This shows the global properties of polynomials, their derivatives, and explains how the Maclaurine...
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This shows the global properties of polynomials, their derivatives, and explains how the Maclaurine and Taylor series work all with animated plots in arctangent scale.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Follow Up Following up and following through is a well known formula for success. Yet people don't do it. Why?
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Following up and following through is a well known formula for success. Yet people don't do it. Why?
A Smart Bear
Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who...
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This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who aim to disrupt you, or you them.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.39.0: Betas, persons, events and libraries PostHog 1.39.0 introduces a new beta for you to try, a new display chart and big improvements to our...
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
The most popular Mixpanel alternatives, compared The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces...
a year ago
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a year ago
The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces multiple tools. The fastest growing Mixpanel…
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...
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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...
Steve Klabnik
"The Rust Programming Language" will be published by No Starch Press
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
“Evergreen” Does Not Mean Immediately Available
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for...
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A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for jobs, applying, interviewing, and all those fun things. For whatever it's worth.
Eric Bailey
Equivalent experience can cut both ways I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and...
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I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and expertise (and grace in answering the occasional ignorant question) in exchange for payment. The goal here is to uncover assumptions I carry with me when using assistive technology,...
Josh Comeau's blog
Dynamic Bézier Curves A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as...
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A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as scroll-to-flatten using SVG path instructions, and how to architect our components for maximum readability and reusability.
Grant Slatton
AI software I'm surprised doesn't exist yet Please make it
4 months ago
Ink & Switch
09 · Version history as chat This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for...
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This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for understanding changes and discussing a work-in-progress document.
Elad Blog
Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?) Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what...
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Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what risks to assume for 2023
Maggie Appleton
The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
over a year ago
Julia Evans
Behind "Hello World" on Linux Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World” Python program on...
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Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World” Python program on Linux, like this one? print("hello world") Here’s what it looks like at the command line: $ python3 hello.py hello world But behind the scenes, there’s a lot more going on....
Joel Gascoigne
Fear of not shipping * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "I’ve had many...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "I’ve had many many many products, the vast majority of the things I’ve written, or created, the organisations I built fail, but the reason I’ve managed a modicum of success is because I just...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Could I Have Some More Friction in My Life, Please? A clip from “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” features a former executive of an online retailer...
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A clip from “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” features a former executive of an online retailer explaining how motivated they were to make buying easy. Like, incredibly easy. So easy, in fact, that their goal was to “reduce your time to think a little bit more critically about a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Subtle Nicety of Fault Tolerance in HTML & CSS HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant. Rather than failing completely when encountering...
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HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant. Rather than failing completely when encountering syntax they don’t understand — looking at you JS/SyntaxError — browsers will continue parsing HTML and CSS as best they can when you introduce incorrect syntax. For someone who is...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, February 2025 Here’s the Ware for February 2025: Thanks again to spida for contributing yet another guest ware!...
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Here’s the Ware for February 2025: Thanks again to spida for contributing yet another guest ware! Hopefully this one is a smidge easier to guess compared to last month’s.
orlp.net - Blog...
Magical Fibonacci Formulae The following Python function computes the Fibonacci sequence, without loops, recursion or floating...
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The following Python function computes the Fibonacci sequence, without loops, recursion or floating point arithmetic: f=lambda n:(b:=2<<n)**n*b//(b*b-b-1)%b It really does: >>> [f(n) for n in range(10)] [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34] How does it work? As a teaser, look at...
swyx's site RSS Feed
35 Principles for 35 Years I turn 35 today. Here are 35 principles I have accumulated and try to live by.
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
A/B testing with Sanity and LaunchDarkly We’ll show in this demo how it’s possible to create and control A/B Tests using Sanity and...
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Routing How the Internet cobbles together thousands of Autonomous Systems with the Border Gateway Protocol
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and...
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Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
The Changelog
It’s More Important To Recognize What Direction People Are Moving Than Where They Are I recently read a post on social media that went something like this (paraphrased): “If you buy an...
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I recently read a post on social media that went something like this (paraphrased): “If you buy an EV, you’re part of the problem. You’re advancing car culture and are actively hurting the planet. The only ethical thing to do is ditch your cars and put all your effort into...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Benchmarking the impact of session recording on performance The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session...
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The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session recording – a screen-recording-like service that…
Yale E360
How I Work Remotely I've been working remote since September 2016. There are a lot of engineers who have worked remote...
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I've been working remote since September 2016. There are a lot of engineers who have worked remote longer than I have; there are others who have more insight into how they work than I do; and there are plenty of people who simply don't work in the same way I do. My intention in...
Yale E360
It's getting hard to use and recommend Firefox, I'm afraid for the free web A couple of months ago, every video call I had on my personal computer ended up using Chromium. I...
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A couple of months ago, every video call I had on my personal computer ended up using Chromium. I tried using Firefox and it looked good on my end: I could see and hear the other person. But they just saw a blank video feed and heard nothing. Firefox showed me that it's sending,...
Tinloof - Blog
Managing Tinloof-powered websites If your website was built by Tinloof, you should be able to self-manage it without any guide. We...
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If your website was built by Tinloof, you should be able to self-manage it without any guide. We wrote this article just to make sure you're not missing out on any feature that helps you manage your website more effectively. Navigating the CMS
beep.blog
.io considered harmful The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their...
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The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
bt RSS Feed
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...
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Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari. This switch back doesn’t mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: a stereogram in SQL I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the...
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I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the Everglades: the endless sea of grass, extending to the horizon, as far as the eye can see and beyond, and teeming with life. There are all kinds of animals there. Herons, egrets,...
David Crawshaw
Experimentation Adrift Experimentation Adrift 2018-03-30 You can learn numerous lessons from failure, almost all of them...
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Experimentation Adrift 2018-03-30 You can learn numerous lessons from failure, almost all of them bogus. This one I have thought about enough over the years that I think it is worth writing down. I started working on Google+ a few weeks before it publicly launched, and was there...
Eric Bailey
Reader Mode: The Button to Beat
over a year ago
Making software...
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the "Linux Desktop". I really do. But...
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The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the "Linux Desktop". I really do. But I've come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. The community. The security and core focus on open source. The customizable environments. Tweaking as...
Stephen Wolfram...
We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute! Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two...
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Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two years. For 45 years I’ve devoted myself to building a taller and taller tower of science and technology—which along the way has delivered many outputs of which I’m quite proud. But...
bt RSS Feed
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better 2021-12-17 Designing1 software is a complex...
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Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better 2021-12-17 Designing1 software is a complex thing. A great deal of real-world testing and user feedback is needed to create the best solution to the problem you are trying to fix. Obvious requirements are to keep things...
Seán Barry
Getting Started With Docker (Part 1) What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this...
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What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this article is for you.
Blog of Simple...
HIPAA and mental health
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
My New Mac Setup (2018-2020) quick checklist for setting up a new macbook
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
_why is a role, not a person
over a year ago
Making software...
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...
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Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari. This switch back doesn't mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Hexadecimal Sucks Humans do no operate on hexadecimal symbols effectively […] there are exceptions. – Dan...
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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...
David Heinemeier...
To hell with forever Immortality always sounded like a curse to me. But especially now, having passed the halfway point...
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Immortality always sounded like a curse to me. But especially now, having passed the halfway point of the average wealthy male life expectancy. Another scoop of life as big as the one I've already been served seems more than enough, thank you very much. Does that strike you as...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.32.0 PostHog 1.32.0 makes it easier to find what you want in the Persons & Groups page, introduces...
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PostHog 1.32.0 makes it easier to find what you want in the Persons & Groups page, introduces vertical funnels and sets the stage for the launch of Experimentation!
A Smart Bear
In its emptiness, there is the function of a startup Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage...
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Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage is meaningless, unless you decide what those things are.
bt RSS Feed
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on...
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like “URL forwarding” through your domain provider could work,...
TokyoDev
Software Developer Internships in Japan, Attending Japanese University, & Job Hunting as a New Grad How do I get a job in Japan with no experience? Why are there no entry level jobs or ways to break...
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How do I get a job in Japan with no experience? Why are there no entry level jobs or ways to break into the industry? This is one of the most common questions in the [TokyoDev Discord server](https://discord.gg/seUNe38YgV), and for good reason. The [job...
alexwlchan
Moving my YouTube Likes from one account to another I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts...
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I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts as a way to keep two separate watch histories. I was watching videos about gender and trans stuff before I came out, and I didn’t want them appearing in my main account – say, when...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Yes, I will have coffee with you On meeting up in meatspace
2 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Get comfortable with abstraction I stumbled across a tweet the other day and it's been resonating in my mind ever since. Mostly...
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I stumbled across a tweet the other day and it's been resonating in my mind ever since. Mostly because it's something I tend to have a problem with. You see, I have this thing where I try really hard to understand exactly how something works—all the way down to the last nut and...
Neil Panchal
Teaching how to code is broken Typically: Chapter 1: Types Chapter 2: Variables Chapter 3: Operators/Math Chapter 4: Control...
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Typically: Chapter 1: Types Chapter 2: Variables Chapter 3: Operators/Math Chapter 4: Control structures Chapter 5: Arrays Chapter 6: Functions Chapter 7: Structs Chapter 8: Classes and Objects Chapter 9: Methods Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism Chapter 11: Some advanced...
Maggie Appleton
A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology A discipline at the intersection of cultural anthropology and binary logic
over a year ago
TokyoDev
What if We Had a Party, but the Entertainment was a Conference: Tokyu RubyKaigi 14 Recap [Tokyu RubyKaigi](https://tokyurb.connpass.com/event/289120/) is a regional ruby conference held in...
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[Tokyu RubyKaigi](https://tokyurb.connpass.com/event/289120/) is a regional ruby conference held in Tokyo. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the event, the last Ruby conference I went to was [RubyKaigi](/articles/rubykaigi-2023-recap), but since this event attracted a similar...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from “Why Can’t We Make Simple Software?” By Peter van Hardenberg I’m a fan of what Ink & Switch is doing in regards to local-first web development. I’ve got a few...
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I’m a fan of what Ink & Switch is doing in regards to local-first web development. I’ve got a few harebrained ideas myself I want to build. And I’ve written notes from a talk by Peter before. Which is all a preface for this set of notes from another talk by Peter. Here’s the talk...
Yale E360
The bittersweet end of a year of independence Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention...
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Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention was to do freelance work ("consulting", to all my clients) until I was able to launch my first product, and then shift into being a product company. My ambitions and confidence...
bt RSS Feed
Better Box Shadows Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 Box shadow on HTML elements has been widely supported across most...
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Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 Box shadow on HTML elements has been widely supported across most browsers for a while now, but I find the default options don’t allow for much visual manipulation of the shadows in general. Let’s take a look at a default configuration of...
Julia Evans
git branches: intuition & reality Hello! I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot, and I keep hearing from people that they find...
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Hello! I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot, and I keep hearing from people that they find the way git branches work to be counterintuitive. It got me thinking: what might an “intuitive” notion of a branch be, and how is it different from how git actually works? So in...
Joel Gascoigne
5 realisations that helped me write regularly * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I was recently...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I was recently talking with Eytan Levit [http://twitter.com/eytanlevit], a really interesting founder who’s had a lot of amazing experiences. We were chatting about some of his current challenges,...
alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step… Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
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Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”. I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance. This...
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Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
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a year ago
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
Josh Comeau's blog
A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support Lots of exciting new features have been landing in CSS recently, and it can be tough trying to...
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Lots of exciting new features have been landing in CSS recently, and it can be tough trying to figure out if they’re safe to use or not. We might know that a feature is available for 92% of users, but is that sufficient? Where do we draw the line? In this blog post, I’ll share...
Yale E360
The most important goal in designing software is understandability When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is...
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When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is understandability. Security, performance, and correctness are all important, but they come after understandability. Don't get me wrong, all of those are important. Software that isn't...
bunnie's blog
Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip “Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus,...
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“Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus, it piqued my interest when an early-stage SE chip startup, Cramium (still in stealth mode), approached me to advise on open source strategy. This blog post explains my reasoning...
TokyoDev
Reduced Hours and Remote Work Options for Employees with Young Children in Japan Japan already stipulates that employers must offer the option of reduced working hours to employees...
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Japan already stipulates that employers must offer the option of reduced working hours to employees with children under three. However, the Child Care and Family Care Leave Act was amended in May 2024, with some of the new provisions coming into effect April 1 or October 1,...
Ink & Switch
Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P...
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Google Domains to shut down The world’s 3rd most popular domain registrar has been sold to Squarespace – but Google didn’t...
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The world’s 3rd most popular domain registrar has been sold to Squarespace – but Google didn’t notify customers just yet. When could this happen, and why is Google silent?
Cognitive...
Rise of the Open Source ChatGPT Clones At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat....
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At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat. Now three projects (that I know of!) aim to give everybody the ability to create their own ChatGPT clone. The basic components of a ChatGPT clone are: large language model as its...
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Fave New Podcasts in 2021 My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also...
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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.
bunnie's blog
Automated Stitching of Chip Images This is the final post in a series about non-destructively inspecting chips with the IRIS...
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This is the final post in a series about non-destructively inspecting chips with the IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique. Here are links to previous posts: This post will cover the software used to stitch together smaller images generated by the control software into a single...
Josh Comeau's blog
A World-Class Code Playground with Sandpack No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code...
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No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code playground. The CodeSandbox team recently released a wonderful tool called Sandpack, to help us create these live-updating code editors. In this tutorial, I'll show you how I use it on this...
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...
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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
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from the Chrome Team’s “Blink principles of web compatibility” Following up on a previous article I wrote about backwards compatibility, I came across this...
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Following up on a previous article I wrote about backwards compatibility, I came across this document from Rick Byers of the Chrome team titled “Blink principles of web compatibility” which outlines how they navigate introducing breaking changes. “Hold up,” you might say....
Confessions of a...
Linux Context Switches: The Truth About TLB Flushes Watch now (22 mins) | Is the TLB really flushed during context switches?
5 months ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
Neither necessary nor sufficient
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is now for sale After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is...
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After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is finally for sale for all! This is The Moment of Truth where we get to see whether all that excitement turns into credit card swipes. That release rush. I love it. And I especially love...
Computer Things
Goodhart's Law in Software Engineering Blog Hiatus You might have noticed I haven't been updating my website. I haven't even looked at any...
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Blog Hiatus You might have noticed I haven't been updating my website. I haven't even looked at any of my drafts for the past three months. All that time is instead going into Logic for Programmers. I'll get back to the site when that's done or in 2025, whichever comes first....
Vadim Kravcenko
How to protect my startup from bots or hacks? When you’re a tech startup, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your business is...
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When you’re a tech startup, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your business is […] The post How to protect my startup from bots or hacks? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Confessions of a...
Live Session on CPython Virtual Machine Internals + Upcoming Posts We are long overdue for a new live session as well as some more articles.
a year ago
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My 2022 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
Making software...
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often...
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Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often times they come with a performance cost: JavaScript. Luckily for us, we can create our very own shiny, animated buttons with pure CSS. The Demo Live CodePen Example The...
A Smart Bear
The fundamental forces of scale These forces make larger companies slower and more difficult to execute, but also more effective...
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These forces make larger companies slower and more difficult to execute, but also more effective when harnessed and leveraged.
Tinloof - Blog
Tinloof design principles Tinloof focuses on key principles to consistently create pleasant and practical designs. We're not...
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a year ago
Tinloof focuses on key principles to consistently create pleasant and practical designs. We're not tied to any specific style - Swiss, Linear-like, neobrutalism, a certain typography or color palette. Instead, we stick to basics that make our process smooth, please our users,...
Maggie Appleton
Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS Notes on how to use the position property in CSS to make scrollytelling stories
over a year ago
Charles Chen
Merging Objects in Google Cloud Storage with Compose and C# Manage large sets of data using a nifty feature of Google Cloud Storage
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Neologisms A collection of interesting words that have recently been coined
over a year ago
Alex Meub
Apple Captive Network Assistant Slowness Problems on iOS We were trying to launch a new captive portal page design for a customer and we ran into the...
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We were trying to launch a new captive portal page design for a customer and we ran into the strangest issue. Only on iOS devices, we’d see extreme slowness and unresponsive behavior in the Apple Captive Network Assistant (CNA). Over the course of several days, we made multiple...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Not Sucking at TypeScript: 3 Tips I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting...
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I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting there with all those little "fuck-fuck-fucks" in my head, thinking of how I'd great it would be to burn the annotations, change the extensions to .js and get out of this nighmare...
Sometimes It Works...
Smile Smile Be thankful Resist the pressure to own things Be good to yourself, but no more than...
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Smile Be thankful Resist the pressure to own things Be good to yourself, but no more than necessary Be a friend Reflect; don’t regret Fail, learn, repeat Stop. Think. Speak Exercise your mind, your body, and your soul Work hard Be true Respect others Value life Give openly Love...
Tinker, Tamper,...
How To Use PyJWT With Django In A Resource Server And Still Keep Parts Of Your Sanity The OAuth2 spec cleanly separates the role of Authorization Server (AS) from that of Resource Server...
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The OAuth2 spec cleanly separates the role of Authorization Server (AS) from that of Resource Server (RS). The role of the AS, and the whole OAUTH2 dance, is to get an access token that will be accepted by a RS.It’s puzzling. It should be easy, nay, trivial, to implement the...
Ink & Switch
Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles...
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In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles with trusted digital relationships.
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How to Download Twitter Spaces That Aren't Yours Grabbing the audio
over a year ago
David Crawshaw
2016-02-10 "Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody...
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"Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you play with them. They are so...
Confused bit
Simply explained: how does GPT work? By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4,...
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By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Facebook’s LLaMa or even Google’s Bard. They are artificial intelligence programs that can participate in a conversation. Impressively smart, they can easily be...
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Pivot to PostHog YC has been running for 15 years, and getting bigger every year. That means there are more than...
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YC has been running for 15 years, and getting bigger every year. That means there are more than 2,000 companies in their network. Many are still small…
Steve Klabnik
Memory Safety is a Red Herring
a year ago
somenice
Wooden Macropad What is it? It’s an open source electronics kit, the Adafruit Macropad, embedded in a solid block of...
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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...
macwright.com
Notes on using Linear We’ve been using Linear for a month or two at Val Town, and I think it has ‘stuck’ and we’ll keep...
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We’ve been using Linear for a month or two at Val Town, and I think it has ‘stuck’ and we’ll keep using it. Here are some notes about it: The keyboard shortcuts are as good as people say they are: you can do things like hover your mouse over a row in a list, hit a keyboard...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware April 2024 Last month’s ware was a “Z16 AI Voice Translator”. The name doesn’t really tell you much, so here’s...
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Last month’s ware was a “Z16 AI Voice Translator”. The name doesn’t really tell you much, so here’s some photos that give a better idea of what the device is about. Above are the main parts of the device. The construction is simple and straightforward: big battery, screen with...
charity.wtf
Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it,...
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I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it, tongue-in-cheek-ily, whether or not architect is a “bullshit role”. It got a LOT of reactions (2.5 weeks later, the thread is still going!!), which I would sort into roughly three camps: “OMG this...
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6 Things Markdown Got Wrong John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong.
over a year ago
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...
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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...
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP...
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I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around whether or not I am allowed to have or hire any dedicated engineering managers....
Computer Things
Strings do too many things No Newsletter next week TLA+ Workshop and moving places. Strings do too many things In the unusual...
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a year ago
No Newsletter next week TLA+ Workshop and moving places. Strings do too many things In the unusual basis types email1 I wrote this about strings: We use strings for identifiers, human writing, structured data, and grammars. If you instead use symbols for identifiers then you can...
Kagi Blog
Kagi + Wolfram Building a search engine is hard.
a year ago
A Smart Bear
The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good"...
a year ago
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How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good" when they really mean "No, I'm not buying."
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...
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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...
Grant Slatton
Status among whom? An essay about status relativism
11 months ago
Sometimes It Works...
Why do many web developers hate jQuery? Why do many web developers hate jQuery? ¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery? The following is an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why do many web developers hate jQuery? ¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery? The following is an answer I originally posted to the above question posed over on Hashnode, the developer community. Thought it was worth sharing :) When jQuery was the new thing, people loved it....
TokyoDev
Job Hunting as a Junior Developer in Japan One word: satisfaction. This is how I could accurately describe my feelings when I achieved my dream...
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a year ago
One word: satisfaction. This is how I could accurately describe my feelings when I achieved my dream of finding a software engineering job in Japan. But my dream had almost turned into a nightmare, as I had faced countless rejections for almost a year. Throughout my experience, I...
Greg Brockman
My path to OpenAI I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing...
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I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and was inspired by the notion of writing code that could understand something that I, as the code’s author, did not. I started writing a chatbot — how...
Blog of Simple...
Simple Analytics: Privacy-first website analytics
over a year ago
Irrational...
Grab bag of random thoughts. A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a...
over a year ago
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A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a bit to braindump the numerous loose threads in my head as I transitioned from Calm to the past month of full-time writing, and then into this new role. This isn’t really a job...
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Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 1 Livecoding my own Dev.to CMS with Next.js + Preact + TypeScript + Tailwind UI
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
The job market for new grads: worse than in 2008, but better than 2002 Insights from the founder of Launch School, Chris Lee, who helped more than 200 new grads find their...
over a year ago
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Sept 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
PlayCanvas: an easy, open source WebGL game engine Last week I wrote about faster JavaScript animations using VelocityJS. As if that wasn't impressive...
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Last week I wrote about faster JavaScript animations using VelocityJS. As if that wasn't impressive enough, today I'm giving you a dose of HTML5 and WebGL greatness. The project is called PlayCanvas, and it dubs itself an open source game engine that brings fun to the...
Irrational...
Measuring an engineering organization. For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most...
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over a year ago
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report...
Letters of Note
I’m amputating you It was when she joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 that Frida Kahlo first met Diego Rivera,...
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It was when she joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 that Frida Kahlo first met Diego Rivera, a fellow artist 21 years Kahlo’s senior who soon became her mentor and husband. Kahlo’s life up until then had been a struggle due to polio as a child and a serious traffic...
Blog - Bitfield...
Will write for food In the final sizzling chapter of my career exposé, we’ll learn how I went from self-unemployment...
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a year ago
In the final sizzling chapter of my career exposé, we’ll learn how I went from self-unemployment to founding the world’s tiniest publishing empire.
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Deploy a Django App to Render.com Messing around learning Django and deploying
over a year ago
Yale E360
That time I wrote malware and got caught Most of us make some bad decisions in high school. While other people were drinking, going to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most of us make some bad decisions in high school. While other people were drinking, going to parties, and who knows what else, I was doing some experimentation of my own. I was writing my first (and only) piece of malware. From as early as I can remember, I've had a fascination...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware July 2024 The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS...
11 months ago
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The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS terminal myself, so it was pretty interesting to see all the anti-tamper traces built into the product (thank you jackw01 for sharing it!). I wonder how effective these are, and...
Josh Collinsworth
Debugging iOS Safari (when all you have is a Mac) Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an...
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over a year ago
Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an iPhone. Here are a few options to get around that problem.
Ink & Switch
Inkbase: Programmable Ink What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
The next version of PHP may very well be 7 We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact,...
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over a year ago
We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact, the project was so plagued with problems that in 2010, it was abandoned. It almost felt like PHP would be perpetually stuck at version 5. Except now there's talk about another major...
Computer Things
New Blog Post: "A Perplexing Javascript Parsing Puzzle" I know I said we'd be back to normal newsletters this week and in fact had 80% of one already...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I know I said we'd be back to normal newsletters this week and in fact had 80% of one already written. Then I unearthed something that was better left buried. Blog post here, Patreon notes here (Mostly an explanation of how I found this horror in the first place). Next week I'll...
David Crawshaw
Transaction oriented collector golang.org/s/gctoc
over a year ago
Writing - Andreas...
Why I don’t give investment advice When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for...
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over a year ago
When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for confirmation that what they do is great (it’s usually not) or some sort of secret sauce for outperforming the market (which doesn’t exist). So people are inevitably disappointed by the...
HTMHell
The devil is in the details: a look into a disclosure widget markup by Cristian Diaz Disclosure widgets are one of the most common component patterns you can find on...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Cristian Diaz Disclosure widgets are one of the most common component patterns you can find on the web. It consists of a button that can hide or show information when you click it. It's also one of the straightforward components to make from a technical standpoint. Just a...
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Swyx Faves: Software Engineering Daily > "How to become a 10x engineer: listen to @software_daily everyday." - [Amjad...
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over a year ago
> "How to become a 10x engineer: listen to @software_daily everyday." - [Amjad Masad](https://mobile.twitter.com/amasad/status/956603016513167360)
Eric Bailey
Swearing and automatic captions Swearing is the spice of language. Throw in a little to make that fucking point you want to make...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Swearing is the spice of language. Throw in a little to make that fucking point you want to make pop. Throw in a shitload to create a motherfucking verbal curry, layers of delicious goddamn meaning to unpack. Swearing is also present in every culture I can think of, with culture...
Julia Evans
New playground: memory spy Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs and see how their variables are represented in memory. It’s designed to be accessible to folks who don’t know C – it comes with bunch of extremely simple example C programs that you can...
HTMHell
Smooth Multi-Page Experiences with Just a Few Lines of CSS by John Allsopp A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications...
7 months ago
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by John Allsopp A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications (and web sites for those who maintain there's a difference), opening up new possibilities for web app architectures, and website experiences. So let’s take a look at View...
David Heinemeier...
We'll always need junior programmers We received over 2,200 applications for our just-closed junior programmer opening, and now we're...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
We received over 2,200 applications for our just-closed junior programmer opening, and now we're going through all of them by hand and by human. No AI screening here. It's a lot of work, but we have a great team who take the work seriously, so in a few weeks, we'll be able to...
Liz Denys
Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
a year ago
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How To Add Monaco Editor to a Next.js app ## Bottom Line Up Front
over a year ago
davidyat.es
Adventures in latent space
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Book review: Rework
over a year ago
The Changelog
Pipe Issue Likely a Kernel Bug Saturday, I wrote in Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them about an issue where a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Saturday, I wrote in Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them about an issue where a certain pipeline seems to have a deadlock. I described tracing it into kernel code. Indeed, it appears to be kernel bug 212295, which has had a patch for over a year that has never...
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Yes, I Still Use jQuery Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end...
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Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end developers since the newest build of (jQuery 3.4.0) released a couple of days ago. While I understand not all developers share the same work-style or are using the same tech-stack,...
blag
Learning C Some resources for learning C
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Creating a sleep ritual * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * My first post on...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * My first post on this blog was one where I pondered whether exercise is a requirement for sleep [https://joel.is/post/1636226903/exercise-sleep]. The post was actually triggered by my inability to...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Global Game Jam 2015
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...
over a year ago
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CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?
David Heinemeier...
Obsessive problem solving followed by aimless wandering I haven't felt any urge to tinker with my Linux setup in months. This after spending much of the...
8 months ago
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I haven't felt any urge to tinker with my Linux setup in months. This after spending much of the spring and into summer furiously and obsessively trying every PC out there to find the perfect replacement for the Mac, diving deep with Ubuntu, and codifying my findings in the...
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JAMstack for Indie Hackers _This article was [published on Indie...
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_This article was [published on Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/article/jamstack-for-indie-hackers-b07f7a943d)!_
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In command Being "in control" is impossible, perhaps not even desirable. Being "in command" is ideal: honest,...
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Being "in control" is impossible, perhaps not even desirable. Being "in command" is ideal: honest, introspective, agile, aware, and proactive.
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Navigating Today’s Supply Chain Challenges We’ve all experienced it. From toilet paper, exercise equipment, toys, cars, and everything in...
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We’ve all experienced it. From toilet paper, exercise equipment, toys, cars, and everything in between, the supply chain during COVID has been blamed for many consumer goods shortages, and rightfully so. During lockdown, how many of us stalked our local warehouse clubs for that...
Alex MacCaw
The Stars Technology's ability to improve lives and alleviate suffering is undeniable. It has swept through...
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Technology's ability to improve lives and alleviate suffering is undeniable. It has swept through our lives like a tidal wave, lifting us from the depths of ignorance and suffering. It continues to reshape the world and grants us access to tools and knowledge previously...
David Crawshaw
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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...
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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...
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: November 2020 general election Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco: Contents Federal ...
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Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco: Contents Federal President & Vice President US Representative, District 12 California State Legislature State Senator, District 11 State Assembly, District 17 San Francisco City & County ...
Max Countryman
A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt Leverage is a powerful tool that applies to many things, including the code we write. However, tech...
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Leverage is a powerful tool that applies to many things, including the code we write. However, tech debt like all leverage, comes with interest payments. How do we know when to start spending bandwidth on addressing it? We'll look at a framework that can help us ensure we don't...
Liz Denys
Uber's robocall blitz to NYC landlines Uber was robocalling me about Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to place a cap on the number of vehicles...
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Uber was robocalling me about Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to place a cap on the number of vehicles they could operate in New York City. Uber has robocalled my home phone number - not the mobile number they have on file for me - four times to ask me to lobby on their behalf. This...
Liz Denys
The underappreciated men's rights activist as a character background As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights...
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As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights movement looks to be about getting equal rights with respect to things like adoptions and custody disputes, but actually, the movement is primarily a coordinated attack on women....
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German court rules Meta’s tracking tech violates GDPR
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Q1 2025: Selection Gestures Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still...
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Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still being simple and intuitive?
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What to do when iCloud is stuck on uploading items I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second...
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I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second Brain](https://www.swyx.io/obsidian-brain), and twice now I've seen iCloud get corrupted into a really bad state. I also [back up everything to github](https://github.com/sw-yx/brain), so I dont really experience much data...
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The Radium Craze Radium was discovered in 1898 by Polish chemist Marie Sklodowska Curie. To produce radium, you need...
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Radium was discovered in 1898 by Polish chemist Marie Sklodowska Curie. To produce radium, you need to extract it from pitchblende, an ore that contains uranium. Radium was discovered in working with the known properties of pitchblende. Curie noticed that pitchblende in its...
Oxide Computer...
Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of us being born in a...
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We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of us being born in a garage and Bryan’s on the soul of our new computer company. Also, see the perspectives of some of our founding engineers: Robert Mustacchi on joining Oxide, Joshua Clulow on the need...
macwright.com
Headlamps are better flashlights A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a...
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A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a flashlight, you need to use your hands too. Headlamps solve that problem. They’re bright enough for most purposes and are usually smaller than flashlights too. There are very few...
markround.com
Disqus - An Apology Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a...
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Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a proper keyboard warrior rant accusing me of all sorts of misdeads revolving around “forcing ads down people’s throats”. I replied saying that there had never been any ads on this...
Ink & Switch
Capstone: A tablet for thinking Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
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Web Analytics for Crypto Companies
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Introducing Data Management for PostHog PostHog is growing fast. In just the last year we've measured ~36.5B total events ingested in...
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PostHog is growing fast. In just the last year we've measured ~36.5B total events ingested in PostHog Cloud, and hundreds of self-hosted users reached…
alexwlchan
What comes after AWS? James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips ...
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James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips what are the core primitives developers need for building and deploying modern applications? what platform services does the underlying infrastructure need to...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS...
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Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn. His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS. His post actually...
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Why I Won’t Use JSDOM (article) Explore how JSDOM's browser simulation works, and learn front-end testing approaches using Vitest...
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Explore how JSDOM's browser simulation works, and learn front-end testing approaches using Vitest Browser Mode for direct browser testing and native APIs
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...
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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...
wingolog
preliminary notes on a nofl field-logging barrier When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part of the object graph that has...
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When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part of the object graph that has been allocated recently. To do so, you need to keep a : a set of old-to-new edges, used as roots when performing a minor collection. A language run-time maintains this set...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Some Love For Interoperable Apps I like to try different apps. What makes trying different apps incredible is a layer of...
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I like to try different apps. What makes trying different apps incredible is a layer of interoperability — standardized protocols, data formats, etc. When I can bring my data from one app to another, that’s cool. Cool apps are interoperable. They work with my data, rather than...
Yale E360
Kill the crunch time heroics Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You...
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Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You can push hard and get that next release done on time, get those new features out, earn more revenue for your company. Engineers are under immense pressure to deliver more and do it...
Identity Designed
OOP Designed by Futura, Mexico City.
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David Heinemeier...
Free speech isn't guaranteed to be forever History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and...
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History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and of dark ages. Each of which must have seemed like they would never end to the people who lived through them. If you were a citizen of the Ottoman empire 1452, you probably didn't...
alexwlchan
The surprising utility of a Flickr URL parser &rarr; As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to...
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As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to parse Flickr URLs. For example: $ flickr_url_parser 'https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727552068/' {"type": "single_photo", "photo_id": "4727552068"} This started...
A Beautiful Site
Swapping variables with JavaScript Swapping the value of two variables normally takes three lines and a temporary variable. What if I...
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Swapping the value of two variables normally takes three lines and a temporary variable. What if I told you there was an easier way to do this with JavaScript? Traditional method # The goal is to swap the values of a and b. The textbook method for doing this looks something like...
TokyoDev
How to buy a house in Japan Since moving to Japan on a J-Find visa, I’ve been curious about buying a home in Japan. This is a...
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Since moving to Japan on a J-Find visa, I’ve been curious about buying a home in Japan. This is a big topic with lots of details to consider, and so after having discussions with several experts, Emil Gorgees from RealEstate.jp, James Howell from Kanachu, Masaru Takeyama from...
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Supervised Learning: VC Dimensions It's not venture capital, that's for sure
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Liz Denys
Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io. Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames...
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Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames than PGP and verified account linking to popular sites such as Twitter and GitHub. This is awesome because "PGP for humans" is long overdue and because I snatched up the namespace...
Joel Gascoigne
Focus on the line, not the dot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I noticed the Who’s Hiring? [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617] thread pop up again on Hacker News. If you’re hiring, it’s a great place to share that fact. Since around half a...
Irrational...
Wardley mapping the service orchestration ecosystem (2014). In Uber’s 2014 service migration strategy, we explore how to navigate the move from a Python...
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In Uber’s 2014 service migration strategy, we explore how to navigate the move from a Python monolith to a services-oriented architecture while also scaling with user traffic that doubled every six months. This Wardley map explores how orchestration frameworks were...
Elad Blog
Fireside SF: Clem Delangue CEO of Hugging Face Sign up now - in person space is limited
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Blog of Simple...
GDPR and fines: all there is to know
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Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and...
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In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and files on disk. This allows editing files in dev tools and having those changes saved to a file, which is handy. Early in 2025 they’ve added a way to automatically configure this...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding page transitions in SvelteKit Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition...
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Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition effects in SvelteKit sites and apps as easy as adding just a few lines of code.
Nelson's Weblog
Overhead shower drips Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you when you’re not using it? It...
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Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you when you’re not using it? It may be water trapped in the pipes and a plunger will temporarily fix it. We have a fancy shower with an overhead rain shower and a ordinary wall sprayer both controlled by the...
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#HeyForGood Recounting my process of how I started with 2 HEY email invites and ended up raising $2575 in...
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Recounting my process of how I started with 2 HEY email invites and ended up raising $2575 in Donations to Support Diversity in Tech!
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2024 The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of...
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The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of reporting both wind speed and direction. Thanks again to FETguy and Renew Computers for the contribution! The coil on the left hand side is a brushless resolver, which determines...
Alex Meub
The Perfect Moscow Mule The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious....
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The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious. This is a guide to making the perfect Mule. The Perfect Copper Mug The copper mug is essential for a real Moscow Mule. Copper immediately takes on the temperature of the drink keeping...
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Using Whisper to Transcribe Podcasts You want
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macwright.com
Recently Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.”...
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Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.” There are many things we don’t understand about how large language models work, but one thing we can be sure of is that ChatGPT is not happy to see you. Ted Chiang’s article about AI...
Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
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Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a chore: 1....
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Challenging the guardians of the paradigm I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in...
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I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in the tech world. To be honest, it’s been a bit exhausting at times to concurrently argue on at least three major flanks. But that’s just how this year has turned out, given the work...
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...
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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.
A Smart Bear
All pretty models are wrong, but some ugly models are useful Identifying useful frameworks for companies, strategy, markets, and organizations, instead of those...
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Identifying useful frameworks for companies, strategy, markets, and organizations, instead of those that just look pretty in PowerPoint.
Joel Gascoigne
An invitation to come and hack on Buffer * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The last two...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The last two years have been truly incredible. What started in my bedroom in the UK has taken us across the world [https://joel.is/post/27260290057/thoughts-on-travelling-with-your-startup] to...
Coding Horror
I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is...
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There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I've lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I've voted in every presidential election since 1992,
Posts on Nikita...
Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
Irrational...
Digital release of Engineering Executive's Primer. Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday, and physical...
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Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday, and physical copies will be available in March. Also, as of this moment, you can purchase the digital edition on Amazon, and read the full digital release on O’Reilly. (You can preorder physical...
macwright.com
Recently Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
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Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories. Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
alexwlchan
Tag your infrastructure-as-code resources with a link to their definitions The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create...
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The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create all your resources by writing a file that defines them, and any time you change something, you update the definition in that file. It’s a nice idea, but easier said than...
Eric Bailey
Re: Selling your extension Although my fifteen minutes of fame for Millennials to Snake people is long over, I still get the...
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Although my fifteen minutes of fame for Millennials to Snake people is long over, I still get the occasional email offering to: Buy the extension outright, or Pay me to add their code into it. The goal of each offer is the same. The solicitor wants to add malicious code for some...
Tinloof - Blog
SEO best practices on Sanity When we build a website with Sanity, we configure SEO best practices to rank higher on search engine...
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When we build a website with Sanity, we configure SEO best practices to rank higher on search engine result pages.
A Beautiful Site
Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to...
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This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors. I figured I did...
A Day In The Life...
A comprehensive list of failed projects A comprehensive list of failed projects
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TokyoDev
Winning a Coding Contest Got Me a Free Trip to Japan I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland...
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I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland for the last two years. Half a year ago I visited Japan where I really fell in love with the people, culture, and food; it felt like a different planet. After I returned to Poland,...
Yale E360
Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or...
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Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or this one: "We don't need to make it accessible since we don't have any blind users 1 ." It belies an attitude that's all too common in the software industry: That accessibility...
Acko.net
Get in Zoomer, We're Saving&nbsp;React Looking back, and forward Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange...
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Looking back, and forward Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange and red site recently spilled the tea about how mean Uncle React has been, and how much nicer some of these next-gen frameworks supposedly are. I find this bizarre for two...
Tony Finch's blog
Where does "where does my computer get the time from?" come from? I am pleased that so many people enjoyed my talk about time at RIPE86. I thought I would write a few...
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I am pleased that so many people enjoyed my talk about time at RIPE86. I thought I would write a few notes on some of the things I left out. genesis Essen & Markowitz Galileo zones BIH irony genesis There were a couple of things that I thought would make a fun talk: Just how many...
Blog - Bitfield...
What is 'iota' in Go? iota is a neat feature of Go that lets us create “enums”: lists of constants with arbitrary...
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iota is a neat feature of Go that lets us create “enums”: lists of constants with arbitrary values. Let’s find out how to use iota, with this quick tutorial.
General Robots
Coming soon This is General Robots.
over a year ago
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch...
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The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch humans and AI play Dota, but today’s match will have implications for the world. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that when we can build machines as smart as humans, they will benefit...
Florian Bellmann |...
Every product needs an architecture vision Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture...
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Keeping the lights on while leaving the cloud It was a big year for ops at 37signals. In 2023, we moved seven major applications out of the cloud....
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It was a big year for ops at 37signals. In 2023, we moved seven major applications out of the cloud. Including HEY, our email service, which had been born there, and has an extremely high level of uptime criticality. Moving out of the cloud could not interfere with that...
A Smart Bear
Navigating the unpredictability of everything We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it...
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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.
Confessions of a...
Invite your friends to read Confessions of a Code Addict Thank you for reading Confessions of a Code Addict — your support allows me to keep doing this work.
a year ago
On Test Automation
On working and contributing to conferences abroad This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want...
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This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want my career to go’ series. I will get back to writing technical and automation blog posts soon, but I need to finish my contract testing course first. One of the things I like to do...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Link Preload as Image I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work...
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I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work ok on localhost, but as soon as I push code to a preview branch on a remote server, the image loads between transitions are janky because of image loading. Granted, this stuff...
Alex MacCaw
Unshackling Artificial Minds Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product...
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Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product of Entropy, the law of nature that dictates it is easier to destroy than to create. And here we are, on the cusp of creating not just something new, but
macwright.com
Replay.web is cool I’ve been trying to preserve as much of Placemark now that it’s open-source. This has been a mixed...
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I’ve been trying to preserve as much of Placemark now that it’s open-source. This has been a mixed experience: some products were really easy to move away from, like Northwest and Earth Class Mail. Webflow was harder to quit. But replay.web came to the rescue, thanks to Henry...
Tony Finch's blog
moka pot notes In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it, I have a very large Bialetti...
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In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it, I have a very large Bialetti Moka Express. Recently when I got it going again after a winter of disuse, it took me a couple of attempts to get the technique right, so here are some notes as a reminder to my...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
4 months ago
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Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project: start a new...
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When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project: start a new feature, or add a command line argument parser? We opted for the latter, because it had to happen eventually and it was more well bounded. It ended up having a lot of depth! We...
bt RSS Feed
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
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Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages: libnettle6 libhogweed4 After...
Tony Finch's blog
sudon't My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the practices and security processes...
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My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the practices and security processes that use and recommend sudo, the reasons for using it are mostly bullshit. When I started my career in the late 1990s, I was already aware of really(8) and userv because one of my...
Eric Bailey
How 3 hours of conversation saved a company hundreds of thousands of dollars
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On Life and Lisp
The Federation Fallacy Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air:...
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Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air: mistrust of large corporations, mistrust of governments, and of course, mistrust of proprietary software. Each mistrust is connected by a critical thread: centralisation. Thus,...
macwright.com
Recently We went apple picking this month in New Jersey, and one of the farms had these two golden retrievers...
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We went apple picking this month in New Jersey, and one of the farms had these two golden retrievers in their own, private, enormous pen. It was a petting zoo, but with two golden retrievers. They defended their space against other dogs who wanted to say hi, but stayed near the...
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Dwell and the Tools for Thought Hackathon I worked on a little hackathon project at AGI House with Sasha. We won!
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
How we&#x27;re trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a while now”. It’s about 3.5 years
Joel Gascoigne
For the first few people, hire from your network * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky enough to have reached the stage with Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we have had to start to think about growing the team. For the first 10 months the team consisted of just...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Building Elm with Stack
over a year ago
Sometimes It Works...
The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app a.k.a. “The long way” ¶The 10 (ok, 15)...
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The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app a.k.a. “The long way” ¶The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app ¶a.k.a. “The long way” Edit: Since writing this, Laravel Valet has been launched. I haven’t tried it yet, but if you use a Mac it looks...
Epic Web Dev
AI Assistants (tutorial)
a year ago
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Settlers of Catan in SQL One of the best New Year presents I've ever got was a copy of the German-style board game, The...
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over a year ago
One of the best New Year presents I've ever got was a copy of the German-style board game, The Settlers of Catan. This game has brought me and my friends many an hour of good entertainment. The game is played on a hexagon field with 19 hexagon tiles (3 + 4 + 5 + 4 […] The post...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Remote job sites need a "Timezone overlap" filter There are plenty of remote jobs out there, but nearly all require you to be be “within n hours” of a...
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a year ago
There are plenty of remote jobs out there, but nearly all require you to be be “within n hours” of a timezone. (n often seems to be 2). But I have not come across a remote job site that has a filter that supports this. Most allow you to choose your timezone and then filter jobs...
Contraption Co.
Wine craft 2024 harvest season in Alsace
9 months ago
The Codist
Has Anyone Noticed How Bloated The Internet Has Become? I was on a cruise recently, and trying to read anything online was painful since thousands shared my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was on a cruise recently, and trying to read anything online was painful since thousands shared my internet connection at sea. Reading a relatively lightweight site like Google News generally gave me time to get an ice cream cone before the page appeared. Has everyone abandoned...
ByteofDev
Replacing Disqus Commenting Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent...
a year ago
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a year ago
Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent this.
Vadim Kravcenko
Can an offshore dev agency steal your code? Congrats on becoming a CTO and on immediately thinking of dipping your toes into the world of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Congrats on becoming a CTO and on immediately thinking of dipping your toes into the world of offshore development agencies. […] The post Can an offshore dev agency steal your code? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Vadim Kravcenko
Do some people just not have the talent for Software Engineering? Dear Friend, Your openness in sharing your experiences and concerns resonates deeply with me. I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dear Friend, Your openness in sharing your experiences and concerns resonates deeply with me. I understand how you feel. I […] The post Do some people just not have the talent for Software Engineering? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
alexwlchan
A blue plaque for Hester In the last year, my theatre trips have been dominated by Operation Mincemeat, a comedy musical...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the last year, my theatre trips have been dominated by Operation Mincemeat, a comedy musical currently playing in the Fortune Theatre. The writing is clever, the songs are catchy, and it’s laugh-a-minute funny, but it can also be solemn and moving. The show is based on the...
Vadim Kravcenko
Contracts you should never sign When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part...
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over a year ago
When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part of doing business. […] The post Contracts you should never sign appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Blog of Simple...
Delete Act: all you need to know
a year ago
MMapped blog
Rust at scale: packages, crates, and modules
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Against Names
11 months ago
Liz Denys
invalid arch-dependent ELF magic An elf stands on an arch, attempts to cast a spell, and freaks out when he is unable to cast it,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An elf stands on an arch, attempts to cast a spell, and freaks out when he is unable to cast it, or...
bunnie's blog
A 2-Axis, Multihead Light Positioner This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
a year ago
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a year ago
This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the focus stage, light source, and methodology used to...
blag
Recurse Center First Week Reflections on the first week of the Recurse Center
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Is there a drop in software engineer job openings, globally? I dug into data from Indeed and Hacker News to try and work out if there’s a fall in software...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I dug into data from Indeed and Hacker News to try and work out if there’s a fall in software engineer job vacancies. It looks like there is, but not everywhere.
Tinker, Tamper,...
On The End of Bitcoin [This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
[This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date was May 24th, 2022. I have not added new content.]Is there some scientific literature/scenario planning on the End of Bitcoin? With the next two halvings mining income will shift...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC Maps, and I wrote a case study about it…
alexwlchan
It’s cool to care I’m sitting in a small coffee shop in Brooklyn. I have a warm drink, and it’s just started to snow...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I’m sitting in a small coffee shop in Brooklyn. I have a warm drink, and it’s just started to snow outside. I’m visiting New York to see Operation Mincemeat on Broadway – I was at the dress rehearsal yesterday, and I’ll be at the opening preview tonight. I’ve seen this show more...
A Smart Bear
How to measure the accuracy of forecasts How do you assess forecasts, when the forecast is only a probability? It's not just about accuracy....
a year ago
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a year ago
How do you assess forecasts, when the forecast is only a probability? It's not just about accuracy. Let's dive into the math.
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
A Smart Bear
Being who you are, while becoming better We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means...
a year ago
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a year ago
We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means striving to become better? What is "yourself?"
The History of the...
We’ve been waiting 20 years for this The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect. The post We’ve been...
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a year ago
The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect. The post We’ve been waiting 20 years for this appeared first on The History of the Web.
Code Of Honor
HandmadeCon 2015 interview transcript In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey Muratori about game development. The event included five speakers: Tommy Refenes, Mike Acton, Jonathan Blow, Ron Gilbert, and myself. The event was hosted at the Seattle Public Library,...
Julia Evans
Some tactics for writing in public Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such...
a year ago
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a year ago
Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such assholes!” I’ve often heard the advice “don’t read the comments”, but actually I’ve learned a huge amount from reading internet comments on my posts from strangers over the years,...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Svelte stores: the curious parts We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in svelte components. But not all state belongs in components — sometimes we want app-global state (think state manager), sometimes we just want to reuse logic between components....
Steve Klabnik
Why I'm partnering with Balanced
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
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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...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go A footgun In Go empty interface is...
a week ago
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a week ago
Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go A footgun In Go empty interface is an interface without any methods, typed as interface{}. A zero value of interface{} is nil: var v interface{} // compiler sets this to nil, you could explicitly write = nil if v ==...
Alex Meub
Chromecast Backgrounds I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the background images that cycle through the home screen are pretty awesome. I looked into it and was able to find the URL that this page uses and pull all the images using a Node...
TokyoDev
Japanese Language Proficiency, Job Requirements, and You Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be vague and confusing, as there is no single, clear-cut system used in Japan to define foreigners’ language proficiencies. There are a few systems commonly used to measure language...
Steve Klabnik
Trouble with Diaspora
over a year ago