Grant Slatton
Rohit Chess
fun little board game
10th Mar 2025
David Crawshaw
2014-04-18
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
18th Apr 2014
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
swyx's site RSS Feed
Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine
Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend...
1st Feb 2020
Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend Eleventy to use it.
Florian Bellmann |...
Every product needs an architecture vision
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture...
5th Feb 2024
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture vision can prevent that from happening.
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - April 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a...
1st Apr 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a little late on the April edition, but better late than never. What I did in March - Spent some time...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - June 2023
✨ What I've been up to It's been a busy month at Contraption Company. I'm amid building a new...
1st Jun 2023
✨ What I've been up to It's been a busy month at Contraption Company. I'm amid building a new product called Booklet, which I plan to launch this Summer. It's a community platform designed to be a cal...
Marc Astbury
Mini Programs v.s. Native Apps
After spending a few weeks in China, the most notable behavioural difference is the usage of...
30th Jul 2024
After spending a few weeks in China, the most notable behavioural difference is the usage of mini-programs. Every restaurant has a menu mini-program sitting on top of WeChat or Meituan. Hello Ride the bike-sharing startup is a mini program on top of Alipay. Here is a diagram...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. July 2025
This month we were heads down building a lot of background stuff for big releases that are coming up...
9th Jul 2025
This month we were heads down building a lot of background stuff for big releases that are coming up - but we still did manage to get a few new features out the door!
Ruud van Asseldonk
An API for my Christmas tree
1st Dec 2017
Maggie Appleton
Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams
The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web
2nd Jan 2021
The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web
swyx's site RSS Feed
Book Poll 2019
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this...
2nd Sep 2019
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this poll](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1168182079613485056):
Epic Web Dev
Implicit Assertions (article)
Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a...
12th Mar 2024
Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a test or two in mind to improve.
David Gerrells
how fast is go? simulating millions of particles on a smart tv
The challenge, simulate millions of particles in golang, multi-player enabled, cpu only, smart tv...
13th Sep 2025
The challenge, simulate millions of particles in golang, multi-player enabled, cpu only, smart tv compatible.
David Gerrells
thinking around a pen
Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that...
1st Sep 2020
Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that has annoyed me was that over time they have limited features more and more behind a pay wall for a pro account...
Daniel Immke
Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition
Focusing entirely on government contributions this year.
15th Oct 2020
Focusing entirely on government contributions this year.
Cognitive...
Vicuna
A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna.
Now I've been playing with a lot of models...
5th Apr 2023
A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna.
Now I've been playing with a lot of models like this, such as Alpaca and GPT4All. And I also fine-tuned my own.
But Vicuna is a lot better. Here is a conversation I had with it.
User: Write a limerick about language...
Josh Collinsworth
Understanding the Difference Between Image and Vector File Types
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences...
11th Jun 2015
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences between various popular format types commonly used for graphic design applications. So I decided I’d create a resource that’s hopefully a handy reference on the matter of discerning...
Darek Kay
Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This...
7th Dec 2021
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This distinction has been working until recently, but with Firefox 95, the browser dark theme will enforce dark mode on websites as well. This sounds like a good default, but I want to...
bt RSS Feed
Perspective
Perspective
2024-08-06
I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and...
6th Aug 2024
Perspective
2024-08-06
I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and perspective. If you haven’t yet, I...
ntietz.com blog -...
Functional Programming and Big Data
Update: I wrote this while preparing a talk for the Columbus Functional Programmers meetup. You can...
12th Nov 2016
Update: I wrote this while preparing a talk for the Columbus Functional Programmers meetup. You can find the talk on YouTube. It has more humor than these words, but then you'd have to listen to my voice.
This post is a long one, so here’s a brief roadmap. We’ll start with a...
SOS
Super Bubbly: React Native kids game
TLDR: I built a simple & fun game using React Native, try it out on iPhone and iPad!
In the...
21st Sep 2025
TLDR: I built a simple & fun game using React Native, try it out on iPhone and iPad!
In the Beginning….
My kids are 7 & 9 as I write this in 2025, but 6 years ago in 2019 they loved a simple little bubble popping app on my phone, and I thought it’d be fun to make the best...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems
Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker.
Most of the time you’ll...
1st May 2024
Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker.
Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. However, if you complete Step 1 and still have the problem, continue to Step 2.
Step 2: Hit the “Send” button.
Shortly after...
Copper • A blog...
A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible?
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience.
Another email,...
2nd Aug 2022
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience.
Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for...
Boot.dev Blog
Full-Stack Ops: Back-end and DevOps Roles are Merging
It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗
I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and...
10th Oct 2022
It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗
I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and “DevOps” engineers will coalesce to include almost everything that “the user doesn’t see”. There will still be room for specialization, but these roles will become less distinguishable...
Ferd.ca
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
2022/12/15
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
One of the things I knew right when I started at...
15th Dec 2022
2022/12/15
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
One of the things I knew right when I started at my current job is that a lot of my work would be for "nothing." I'm saying this because I work (as Staff SRE) for an observability vendor, and engineers tend to operate under the...
The Changelog
A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP)
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage....
4th Feb 2021
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage. Sometimes, I would drive in to town where there was a signal to get messages, upload photos, and so forth. I had to take several devices with me: my phone, my wife’s, maybe a …...
Matt Keeter
Fixing a soldering iron with 3D printing
15th Sep 2017
Daniel Marino
What I’m Using in 2026
This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s...
4th Jan 2026
This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s list.
Applications
Chrome — Chrome was on my list last year, but I’m mentioning it again because I actually used Brave for most of 2025. I like Brave, and honestly I can’t even...
Darek Kay
GitHub developer statistics
Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me...
25th May 2021
Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me to check my own impact as an employee:
1002 pull requests shipped
3062 pull requests reviewed
5 years (since migrating to GitHub Enterprise)
LOC (lines of code) is a terrible...
swyx's site RSS Feed
2025 Advice to my old selves
I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got...
15th May 2025
I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got the chance to sit and reflect. a lot of things are going well, lots more could be better. I'm the only person responsible for preserving the good and fixing the bad. I'm now back on...
Acko.net
In Search of Sophistication
Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice
The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times...
10th Sep 2021
Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice
The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times on social media:
"Broken English is a sign of courage and intelligence, and it would be nice if more people remembered that when interacting with immigrants and refugees."
This...
dthompson
How to apply Hilltop's Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 English patch on Linux
Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop
released an English patch for...
8th Nov 2023
Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop
released an English patch for Boku no Natsuyasumi
2, which
finally makes the Japan exclusive PS2 game accessible to us English
speaking folks. The README explains how to apply the patch on Windows
or via a web...
General Robots
The Mythical Non-Roboticist
What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework...
14th Mar 2024
What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
Kagi Blog
Kagi status update: First three months
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago (...
1st Sep 2022
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ).
Irrational...
Who gets to do strategy?
If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with
the prevalent idea that they...
6th Mar 2025
If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with
the prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they can
work on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this idea
perfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization,
it just...
charity.wtf
The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)
My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating...
23rd Sep 2022
My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, which she accepted with relish. Molly was smart, driven, and fiercely ambitious, so...
A Smart Bear
"I scratched my own itch" isn't good enough
This isn't the humble-brag you think it is; The most common origin story is also common to startups...
2nd Mar 2025
This isn't the humble-brag you think it is; The most common origin story is also common to startups that fail. But it's a start.
Irrational...
Make no assumptions.
I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”,
which is the idea that there...
11th Jul 2026
I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”,
which is the idea that there are many distinct layers of soil, from topsoil all the way down
to bedrock, which all combine into a soil horizon.
Translating this idea into software, the ideal codebase would...
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Oct 2019 Recap
Hello mailing list friends!
2nd Nov 2019
Hello mailing list friends!
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: assemblages
3rd Dec 2012
Dan Quach Blog
How Cooking Works
In 2006, I did my first start-up howcookingworks.com where the idea was a site to learn how to cook....
12th Apr 2026
In 2006, I did my first start-up howcookingworks.com where the idea was a site to learn how to cook. The first part of the site described the techniques of cooking, and the other was where cooks could connect to participants to learn from them. At the time, I went to a lot of...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Staging is a trap
@mipsytipsy
Software staging clusters only grow.
As production accrues more services, staging’s...
15th Sep 2022
@mipsytipsy
Software staging clusters only grow.
As production accrues more services, staging’s costs ramp up.
And maintaining a single, massive, production-like staging may no
longer be the right answer.
But several, small staging clusters—each fit for their purpose—offers
a...
Epic Web Dev
Mocking Techniques in Vitest (workshop)
1st Oct 2024
Liz Denys
Why I left Instagram
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising
Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram...
18th Apr 2022
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising
Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram went from annoying but benign reminders of capitalism to an utterly dehumanizing nightmare. Suddenly, every third or fourth photo of my friends' latest adventures with their kids,...
alexwlchan
Digital decluttering
I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom.
I read novel-length stories about...
13th Sep 2024
I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom.
I read novel-length stories about Doctor Who characters; I swooned over fan art of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries; I pored over in-depth analyses of each episode of Carmilla.
Most of that is gone now.
Links rot quickly,...
Darek Kay
Handling Enzyme in React 18
React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing...
26th Mar 2022
React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing implementation details to more user-centric unit tests. However, many projects still contain lots of Enzyme tests from the early days, making migration difficult and time-consuming. At my...
Words and Buttons...
Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from?
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two...
28th Jun 2023
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two programs. The first one is the thing you sell, and the second – is a model that undergoes some sort of verification every time you run a compiler. This second program, although, often...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
June 12, 2009
Bulk grain banner
So we’re getting a bulk grain order together - like a pallet of bulk
grain. I’m...
12th Jun 2009
Bulk grain banner
So we’re getting a bulk grain order together - like a pallet of bulk
grain. I’m pumped. Also I designed a pretty killer banner for the
webpage with the order info. It’s good to be da king. Word.
I recovered this article from my old blog via the Internet...
Words and Buttons...
SymPy makes math fun again
It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast,...
25th Jun 2019
It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast, accurate, and without angst. In other words, it is everything I'm not.
Charles Chen
.NET Source Generators with .NET 7
Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
15th Aug 2023
Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
On Test Automation
Time for another LinkedIn break
Yes, it’s that time again: the season to be jolly and time to stop wasting time on LinkedIn for a...
11th Dec 2025
Yes, it’s that time again: the season to be jolly and time to stop wasting time on LinkedIn for a while. I’ve gone on a couple of, admittedly not very successful, LinkedIn breaks before (see here and here), breaks from which I always returned after a few weeks, in part because...
Acko.net
On Progress
The known unknown knowns we lost
When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to...
18th Jan 2022
The known unknown knowns we lost
When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter.
Not me though. For whatever reason,...
dthompson
Guile-websocket 0.2.1 released
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.1 has been released!
Guile-websocket is an...
6th Aug 2025
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.1 has been released!
Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket
protocol, both the
client and server sides, for Guile Scheme.
This small patch release contains the following changes:
Greatly improved validation of initial...
elementary Blog
GTK 4 Porting And A Bit Of Whimsy
I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for...
4th Mar 2024
I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for helping us reach 20% of our monthly funding goal! I’ve been seeing a ton of demand for Early Access which is super exciting. If you’re not already in Early Access, you can be among...
Buttondown's blog
How we migrated to TypeIDs without breaking clients
Making every ID in our API self-describing, one endpoint at a time
1st Mar 2026
Making every ID in our API self-describing, one endpoint at a time
charity.wtf
Software Sprawl, The Golden Path, and Scaling Teams With Agency
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The company is growing like crazy, your engineering team...
2nd Dec 2018
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The company is growing like crazy, your engineering team keeps rising to the challenge, and you are ferociously proud of them. But some cracks are beginning to show, and frankly you’re a little worried. You have always advocated for...
Alice GG
Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform
In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD.
This showed a way to...
10th Oct 2022
In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD.
This showed a way to implement a GitOps workflow, which means using a Git repository as the source of truth for the state of your cluster.
Flux introduces multiple new objects in your Kubernetes...
Grant Slatton
Bureaulogy
The study of bureaucracy
21st Dec 2024
Words and Buttons...
Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting
“Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are...
11th Apr 2019
“Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are enough. And it's “differential” because it aims to highlight the difference between lexemes. Ideally, the smaller the lexical difference, the greater the color difference should be.
...
charity.wtf
Deploys Are The ✨WRONG✨ Way To Change User Experience
This piece was first published on the honeycomb.io blog on 2023-03-08. …. I’m...
8th Mar 2023
This piece was first published on the honeycomb.io blog on 2023-03-08. …. I’m no stranger to ranting about deploys. But there’s one thing I haven’t sufficiently ranted about yet, which is this: Deploying software is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad way to go about the...
bt RSS Feed
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
2024-09-02
Important: I do not support pirating...
2nd Sep 2024
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
2024-09-02
Important: I do not support pirating or obtaining illegal copies of video games. This process should only be used to copy your existing PS2 games for backup, in case of accidental damage to the original...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Beware The Fallacy of Composition
Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
1st Oct 2020
Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
Irrational...
Slides for Measuring an engineering organization.
Last week, I gave a 30 minute talk to a group of CTOs and VP Engineerings in San Francisco
about...
20th May 2023
Last week, I gave a 30 minute talk to a group of CTOs and VP Engineerings in San Francisco
about measuring engineering organizations.
This talk was essentially this blog post,
and here are the slides.
A few topics worth highlighting:
Measurement educates you, and your audience,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Name Things
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
16th May 2019
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - [Leon Bambrick](https://twitter.com/secretgeek/status/7269997868?lang=en)
Marco.org
A letter to John Ternus
As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who...
1st Apr 2026
As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who loved computers started making great computers to inspire more people to love computers.
That spirit is difficult to find in the tech business today.
Immense scale, soulless...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A language for designing slides
27th Apr 2017
bt RSS Feed
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux
2023-09-11
I’ve recently been using Arch Linux...
11th Sep 2023
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux
2023-09-11
I’ve recently been using Arch Linux for my main work environment on my ThinkPad X260. It’s been great. As someone who is constantly drawn to minimalist operating systems such as Alpine or OpenBSD, it’s nice to use...
Buttondown's blog
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
1st Mar 2025
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
ntietz.com blog -...
My portable ergonomic setup
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms.
It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I...
3rd Jun 2024
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms.
It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I couldn't type, and at the worst I couldn't pick up our kids.
That episode spontaneously resolved after a couple of months, but flareups happen occasionally.
One guaranteed trigger...
MMapped blog
Scaling Rust builds with Bazel
20th Mar 2023
Joel Gascoigne
Raising funding as a first-time founder
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26th Feb 2012
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I’ve been fortunate enough to meet with some outstanding first-time
entrepreneurs on a few different days during this week. In almost every case I
can really feel the passion and determination...
Oxide Computer...
RIP Khaled Bichara, 1971-2020
We were deeply saddened to learn that
Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s
angel investors,
died in a...
3rd Feb 2020
We were deeply saddened to learn that
Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s
angel investors,
died in a car
accident in Cairo on Friday night.
Those of us who have known Khaled for years have known him to be a bold investor
who appreciated hard technical problems – and also a profoundly...
TokyoDev
How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan
You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on...
11th May 2025
You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on short-term visas, or who plan to move frequently from city to city, it’s perfectly possible to live and work in Japan without one.
However, if you want to work a full-time job, rent an...
Buttondown's blog
Why Elliot Jay Stocks loves using Buttondown
Designer and typographer Elliot Jay Stocks uses Buttondown to power Behind the Scenes, his weekly...
2nd Apr 2024
Designer and typographer Elliot Jay Stocks uses Buttondown to power Behind the Scenes, his weekly newsletter about design, typography, and creativity.
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2023
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
30th Dec 2023
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
Confessions of a...
Live Session: CPython and ELF Essentials for Building a Basic Remote Profiler
Learn some CPython internals, ELF file format and loading, and how remote profilers work
11th May 2024
Learn some CPython internals, ELF file format and loading, and how remote profilers work
Sebastian Witowski
Compare to None
How do we check if something is None?
With the beauty of the Python language - the code that you...
23rd Feb 2023
How do we check if something is None?
With the beauty of the Python language - the code that you would write is literally the same as the above question:
if something is None:
It reminds me of this joke:
- How do you turn pseudocode into Python?
- You add .py at the end of the...
Tinloof - Blog
Perfecting the design handover process
At Tinloof, we aim for seamless and efficient design handoffs, drawing from our experience...
2nd Oct 2023
At Tinloof, we aim for seamless and efficient design handoffs, drawing from our experience completing dozens of projects.
Our ultimate goal is a "0 questions asked" handoff, akin to an improved IKEA assembly experience.
In this article, we'll explore the three core sections...
TokyoDev
Recruitment Agencies in Japan: How To Get Them To Work For You
You may have considered using recruiters when looking for a job in Japan. This article aims to help...
7th Jun 2024
You may have considered using recruiters when looking for a job in Japan. This article aims to help you understand the structure of recruiting in Japan and assist you in your job search. I hope this will be beneficial, especially for those who want to work as engineers in...
Alice GG
Protecting Godot games against reverse engineering
Godot games are known to be easy to reverse engineer.
Simple tools can extract assets and source...
3rd Apr 2026
Godot games are known to be easy to reverse engineer.
Simple tools can extract assets and source code from the packaged files.
If you are making commercial games you probably want to take some steps to avoid this.
Jorien Loman
Godot RE Tools
The most popular Godot reverse...
Boot.dev Blog
8 Best Ways to Learn JavaScript, Personalized
JavaScript is undoubtedly one of the best languages to learn as a developer, whether you’ve been at...
5th Feb 2022
JavaScript is undoubtedly one of the best languages to learn as a developer, whether you’ve been at it for years or are just starting out. More than 97% of today’s websites are powered by JavaScript. Regardless of what field you work in, you’ll likely be exposed to JavaScript at...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone...
4th Nov 2024
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of...
A Beautiful Site
I'm pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac...
7th Aug 2026
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac App Store. Today, I decided to pull it.
The app isn't a new idea, but it bakes four color tools into a single menu bar app: an eyedropper, a color picker, a palette manager, and a...
ntietz.com blog -...
Custom for designing, off-the-shelf for shipping
As software engineers, we're paid to write really cool type annotations solve problems.
Usually we...
15th Sep 2025
As software engineers, we're paid to write really cool type annotations solve problems.
Usually we do this by taking a bunch of different pieces and putting them together to solve the problem.
Maybe you mix together a database, a queue, a web framework, and some business...
Buttondown's blog
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Boot.dev Blog
JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference?
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What...
6th Sep 2021
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is TypeScript?” and if you haven’t, it won’t be long before you do.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
What I Told the FCC
I think that new FCC proposal for “Restoring
Internet Freedom” would completely destroy the...
8th May 2017
I think that new FCC proposal for “Restoring
Internet Freedom” would completely destroy the internet. Should this
proposal go any further, the internet will no longer be recognizable
within a very short amount of time. I’m worried that I will no longer
have a place on the...
Blog System/5
Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than...
9th Sep 2024
NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?
TokyoDev
Recruiters and Human Traffickers: A Short History of Employment Agencies in Japan
Japan's [Employment Security...
1st Oct 2020
Japan's [Employment Security Act](http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail_main?id=10&vm=2&re=) requires a recruitment business to obtain a license. Failure to do so can result in imprisonment of up to a year. While I've met sleazy recruiters, sending them to prison...
Boot.dev Blog
Creating and Remembering a Strong Passphrase
We all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique...
3rd Aug 2019
We all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique passwords. Unique passwords however present a difficult problem.
A Beautiful Site
External popup links using jQuery
With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has...
15th Nov 2007
With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has become a bit trivial, if not annoying, to standardize. I always look for a consistent, unobtrusive approach that degrades gracefully; and since I use jQuery quite frequently, this is...
home automation -...
KY-040 Rotary Encoder with Linux on the Raspberry Pi
For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a...
1st May 2018
For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a numerical value. So I bought some rotary encoders off Amazon.If you search the Internet for information/tutorials on how to use a “KY-040” rotary encoder with Linux and the Raspberry...
Ink & Switch
10 · Beyond prose
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
3rd Apr 2024
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
Ruud van Asseldonk
Exceptional results: error handling with C# and Rust
17th Jun 2015
Buttondown's blog
Tags now get auto-grouped
Tags now get auto-grouped
5th Feb 2024
Tags now get auto-grouped
Jordan Eldredge's...
PHP: Avatar Hack
A php script that generates an image for use as an avatar.
9th Oct 2008
A php script that generates an image for use as an avatar.
Alice GG
Learning Dutch online in 2023
Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands.
Since then, I have spent some time learning...
2nd Mar 2023
Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands.
Since then, I have spent some time learning the language and reached an intermediate (B1-B2) level.
While learning Dutch is not a hard requirement to live and work in the country, it does make day-to-day life a bit more...
Eric Bailey
Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture
I think about evolved antennas a lot.
If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you...
11th May 2026
I think about evolved antennas a lot.
If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you set an evolutionary algorithm on the task of producing a structure that is as efficient at its intended function as possible. Past that there’s no human input, the algorithm just...
Maggie Appleton
The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
22nd Dec 2021
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
Steve Klabnik
Transmuting Philosophy into Machinery
8th Mar 2012
Making software...
Faking 3D Elements with CSS
Faking 3D Elements with CSS
2020-04-29
Although not always practical, creating the illusion that...
29th Apr 2020
Faking 3D Elements with CSS
2020-04-29
Although not always practical, creating the illusion that some of your web elements are 3D can be a fun experiment. I set out to see if I was able to create such an illusion with only 2 HTML elements and as little CSS as possible.
This is...
A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI-generated Code
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on...
8th Jul 2022
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on AI-generated code.
As an open source maintainer, I respectfully ask that you refrain from using AI-generated code when contributing to this project. This includes code generated by tools...
Posts on Nikita...
Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems
This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website,...
21st May 2022
This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own.
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following...
Quentin Santos
How to use “real” UART
I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This...
10th Apr 2025
I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This is just a recap of the basics to help put things in context. Many tutorials focus on using UART over USB, which adds many layers of abstraction, hiding what it actually is. Here,...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Visited San Francisco and rode in my first Waymo - Launched Find AI on Clay.com, ou...
Basta’s Notes
Don't ask me to embarrass myself.
Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
18th Jul 2024
Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
A Beautiful Site
The difference between web designers and web developers
If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web...
22nd Dec 2009
If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web Designer" and "Web Developer". Oftentimes, the two phrases are used interchangeably by someone who is not familiar with the industry. Perhaps the concept is irrelevant to a...
Josh Comeau's blog
Statements Vs. Expressions
One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of...
11th Jul 2022
One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of statements, and statements have slots for expressions. In this blog post, we'll dig into how these two structures work, and see how building an intuition about this can help us...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++
How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog
Windows’s win32 API is old and...
10th Apr 2024
How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog
Windows’s win32 API is old and crufty. Many things that are trivial to do in HTML are difficult in win32.
One of those things is changing size of font used by your native, desktop app.
I encountered this in...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Monitoring my weather at home 🌩️
Davis Vantage Wireless Console/Reciever,
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, RTC module—the heart of my...
19th Feb 2023
Davis Vantage Wireless Console/Reciever,
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, RTC module—the heart of my weather
center
Despite their best efforts, all weather apps will eventually lie.
Weather is often hyper-local. For example, trying to suss out the
temperature this...
HTMHell
#9 Cookie Consent from Hell
Bad code
<body>
<header>…</header>
<main>…</main>
<footer>…</footer>
<div...
8th Nov 2019
Bad code
<body>
<header>…</header>
<main>…</main>
<footer>…</footer>
<div class="cookie_consent modal">
<p>We use cookies…</p>
<div class="cookie_consent__close">
<i class="fa fa-times"></i>
</div>
<div class="cookie_consent__ok">OK</div>
...
Josh Collinsworth
My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months
My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought...
16th Jan 2026
My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought I'd write up a review, in case you were thinking of getting one for yourself.
A Smart Bear
Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done
Startups fail at biz dev because their proposals don't make sense to bigger companies. Here's how to...
6th Oct 2024
Startups fail at biz dev because their proposals don't make sense to bigger companies. Here's how to adjust your approach.
David Crawshaw
2016-02-10
"Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody...
10th Feb 2016
"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...
Epic Web Dev
Deploy Web Applications All Over the World (tutorial)
6th Apr 2023
Josh Comeau's blog
Animating the Unanimatable
An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items...
15th Feb 2016
An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items in a list swap positions.
bt RSS Feed
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox
2017-10-10
Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
10th Oct 2017
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox
2017-10-10
Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven’t seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait).
I...
Buttondown's blog
The principle of LII
Developers want news from your product (sparingly).
1st Nov 2024
Developers want news from your product (sparingly).
bt RSS Feed
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2020-01-07
This blog post was written, edited and tested...
7th Jan 2020
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2020-01-07
This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
Joel Gascoigne
Firing myself, again
I've written in the past about how I see the role of a...
26th Jan 2014
I've written in the past about how I see the role of a CEO
[https://joel.is/post/42713179646/expert-of-nothing] to be one where you are
repeatedly firing yourself. Joe Kraus
[http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/28/first-fire-thyself/] brought my attention to
thinking about the role in...
Boot.dev Blog
Breaking Into Tech on Hard Mode: A Supply/Demand Analysis of Career Options
Markets are efficient, right?
I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of...
23rd Nov 2025
Markets are efficient, right?
I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of stock market bubble, but I do believe that most markets are mostly efficient. Everyone out there is looking for a good deal, and despite the well-known irrationalities of human...
David Crawshaw
Smaller Go 1.7 binaries
blog.golang.org/go1.7-binary-size
19th Aug 2016
blog.golang.org/go1.7-binary-size
Charles Chen
Lessons Learned from Working at Startups
Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
4th Dec 2024
Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Repos that always pass their tests
Losing faith in your build hobbles a software project. Continual test
failures create alarm...
17th Feb 2022
Losing faith in your build hobbles a software project. Continual test
failures create alarm fatigue—people habituate to ignoring test
results.
Ignoring your tests creates an apathy spiral: more breakage, more
failure, more apathy, resulting in decreased velocity. Fortunately,...
somenice
Generative Art on a Round TFT Display
I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px...
9th Dec 2023
I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px round TFT display. The results look amazing. Using the IOT capable Adafruit Qualia Board and 2.1″ Round TFT with capacitive touch it’s programmed using CircuitPython. I look forward to...
Eric Bailey
CSS-Tricks could be a co-op
I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks.
CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the...
yesterday
I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks.
CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the opportunity to write for them. In doing so, they helped to both socialize and normalize accessibility as a mainstream frontend concern. I’m deeply thankful to them for this.
The...
Sebastian Witowski
Pathlib for Path Manipulations
If I were to name my top ten modules from the standard library, pathlib would be high on that list....
17th Jul 2023
If I were to name my top ten modules from the standard library, pathlib would be high on that list. It could even make it to the top three.
Manipulating paths was always a tricky problem if your code was supposed to work on different operating systems. If you accidentally...
Explained from First...
Number theory explained from first principles
17th Sep 2022
Jordan Eldredge's...
Drawing mandalas with JavaScript and canvas
Rewriting a PHP script from 2008 in JavaScript.
2nd Jan 2015
Rewriting a PHP script from 2008 in JavaScript.
TokyoDev
The Best Resources for Entrepreneurial Developers
My background is as a developer, but I've been running my own business since 2008. For advice about...
10th Apr 2014
My background is as a developer, but I've been running my own business since 2008. For advice about business, I've always found other entrepreneurial developers are the best source, as they tend to have faced similar challenges to my own. If you're a developer starting your own...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it
Note: this was originally posted on...
21st Aug 2022
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
We’ve dedicated the week of August 22nd to a brand new internal initiative called Build Week. We’ll all be putting aside our regular work for a single week to come...
Oxide Computer...
March 2020 Update
Hello friends!
I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this
unprecedented time in...
22nd Mar 2020
Hello friends!
I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this
unprecedented time in which we are all united. Our thoughts go out to
everyone working hard to help those in need. We wish you and your
families health and resilience.
Hard at work… and growing
A lot...
Engineer’s Codex
The Boolean Trap
Use enums instead
5th Sep 2024
swyx's site RSS Feed
Launching the Coding Career Handbook!
I'm launching my career advice book today!
1st Jul 2020
I'm launching my career advice book today!
Liz Denys
Notes on pandemic eats, March to mid-October 2020
I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian...
17th Oct 2020
I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian before the start of a pandemic was really convenient. Few things beat having a bunch of dried beans, lentils, and veggies plus a bunch of rice on in my pantry while you're figuring...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Early Stage Company Offsites
this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
6th Oct 2024
this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
A Beautiful Site
A clever way to style the <mark> element
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in...
1st Feb 2019
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials:
Most textual highlights use a boring rectangle background color, but this stands out and looks gorgeous. I was really hoping they were using a simple <mark>...
markround.com
A Splinter In Your Mind
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be...
15th Nov 2022
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis helped make sense of a lot things and has given me a greater insight into my “way of being in the world”. Whilst there are times I...
Liz Denys
Printable shrinkage rulers
Clay shrinks as it dries and even more as it's fired, so it's useful to have a way to estimate the...
29th Sep 2024
Clay shrinks as it dries and even more as it's fired, so it's useful to have a way to estimate the final size of in-progress work - especially if you're making multiples or trying to fit pieces together. One way to do this is with shrinkage rulers. I figured I'd design my own...
Sedimental
Announcing glom: Restructured Data for Python
This post introduces glom,
Python's missing operator for nested objects and data.
If you're an easy...
9th May 2018
This post introduces glom,
Python's missing operator for nested objects and data.
If you're an easy sell, full API docs and
tutorial are already available at
glom.readthedocs.io.
met me at PyCon,
this 5-minute talk.
The Spectre of Structure
In the Python world, there's a...
bt RSS Feed
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
2020-08-13
For the past four months this blog has been...
13th Aug 2020
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
2020-08-13
For the past four months this blog has been running on WordPress - but that ended today. I’ve officially switched back over to Jekyll. I’m not going to spend too much time delving into why I made the transition back, but I’ll...
Cognitive...
Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses
With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online...
1st Nov 2024
With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online discussions around what these terms mean for developers, businesses, and everyday users of AI tools like ChatGPT. Much of the conversation, especiall...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Four
It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three...
29th Dec 2021
It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three years of my journey as a first-time technical founder.
2021 was not an exception, and my role as RevenueCat’s CTO kept evolving quite a lot. As expected, my job did not get any...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Command-Timing-Bash-Prompt
A few years ago I was using ZSH with Sindre Sorhus’s Pure prompt and
generally enjoying the...
19th Jan 2016
A few years ago I was using ZSH with Sindre Sorhus’s Pure prompt and
generally enjoying the experience. The big, dumb, obvious caveat of
using ZSH is that it’s not Bash. As a result, when you SSH into
production machines that only have bash installed, you feel a...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to destroy your app performance using React contexts
useContext hook has made React Context API so pleasant to work with that many people are even...
4th Oct 2021
useContext hook has made React Context API so pleasant to work with that many people are even suggesting that we drop external state management solutions and rely on the built-in alternative instead. This is dangerous thinking that can easily push your app's performance down the...
David Heinemeier...
Pay yourself first
There'll always be more emails in need of reply, more meetings to attend, and more updates to read....
4th Oct 2025
There'll always be more emails in need of reply, more meetings to attend, and more updates to read. A person can fill the entire workweek with these tasks over and over again. But to stay sane and sharp, you must pay yourself first by doing the work that actually means something...
Blog of Simple...
Google Analytics data collection
14th Apr 2023
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - July 2023
✨ What I've been up to We finished moving back to NYC last month. I made a quick stopover to...
1st Jul 2023
✨ What I've been up to We finished moving back to NYC last month. I made a quick stopover to Canada for Tailwind Connect, where I met some interesting people and learned some new CSS techniques....
Making software...
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode
2021-04-12
After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal...
12th Apr 2021
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode
2021-04-12
After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal blog, I decided to take a closer look at how I was supporting dark mode for my visitors. I was using the proper CSS query to target those who had system-wide dark mode enabled, but I...
TokyoDev
My experience with Vulcanus in Japan, a training programme for EU engineering students
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter...
21st Nov 2023
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter the country, such as a working holiday visa, English teaching, or getting hired by one of the [many wonderful companies](http://www.tokyodev.com/companies), posting jobs on...
TokyoDev
Service Introduction: Forkwell
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending...
2nd May 2012
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending out your resume to lots of companies and hoping for the best is clearly broken. Despite this, people all around the world, but especially in Japan, cling to it. So I got excited...
Liz Denys
The best-kept secret of the French press: cold brew coffee
Whether staying up late mandated my love of caffeine or vice versa, I've become hooked on coffee of...
11th Jan 2010
Whether staying up late mandated my love of caffeine or vice versa, I've become hooked on coffee of all forms. My hands-down favorite until a few months ago was the caffè macchiato - not to be confused with the highly commercialized latte macchiato you see in places like...
Ink & Switch
01 · Universal version control
We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators...
13th Feb 2024
We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators produce better work.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fibonacci Goals
A system for goalsetting.
1st Jan 2021
A system for goalsetting.
Ink & Switch
Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration
Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P...
14th Apr 2020
Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P collaboration software.
beep.blog
Writing AWS Lambda functions behind SQS with LambdaQ
I got bored of writing the boilerplate. My team got bored of reviewing it. No more!
11th Apr 2024
I got bored of writing the boilerplate. My team got bored of reviewing it. No more!
David Gerrells
How fast is javascript? Simulating 20,000,000 particles
The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the...
6th Jul 2024
The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the cpu. Let’s go.
Eric Bailey
Crafting a chatbot people will use: Part 1
21st Jun 2017
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...
8th Apr 2024
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...
A small freedom area...
From roots to polynomials
Polynomials can be represented in various forms. The most common ones are
those I call the "sum of...
7th Aug 2022
Polynomials can be represented in various forms. The most common ones are
those I call the "sum of powers" (for example f(x)=ax³+bx²+cx+d) and the
"root factors" (for example f(x)=(x-r)(x-s)(x-t), where r, s and t are
the roots). The process of transforming the former into the...
Ink & Switch
Universal version control and rich text on Automerge
In this dispatch we're sharing some updates about our ongoing research on universal version control.
8th May 2024
In this dispatch we're sharing some updates about our ongoing research on universal version control.
bt RSS Feed
CSS Slope Graphs
CSS Slope Graphs
2021-06-07
I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
7th Jun 2021
CSS Slope Graphs
2021-06-07
I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let’s change that, shall we?
The Demo
I’m basing...
The Codist
What Is Software Quality?
Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In...
31st Mar 2025
Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In addition, how do you know when you have it?
This is the longest single blog post I have ever written.
I spent four decades writing software used by people (most of the server
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new...
1st Nov 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new features for Postcard - Got a new photo 🤔 Things worth sharing - Reading How to make great coffee ...
bt RSS Feed
Simple Accessibility
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
7th Sep 2018
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward:
Basic design
Test that your project has the proper...
Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
1st Apr 2019
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
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...
5th Jan 2024
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....
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Lisp interpreter in SQL
This year, I'll be implementing a Lisp interpreter in SQL. Now, what's Lisp, and why would I want to...
31st Dec 2025
This year, I'll be implementing a Lisp interpreter in SQL. Now, what's Lisp, and why would I want to do that? Well, let me tell you a little story about that. Several decades ago, I got a New Year's present from my roommate's girlfriend. It was a book. She got it at a used...
Patrick Kayongo
Martyr
Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the...
25th Mar 2023
Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the floor to catch the sweat that had started dripping from his forehead. His hand was shaking uncontrollably, jerked back and forth by the fear of getting caught again. Mukaajanga, the...
Quentin Santos
IndexedDB is Weird
Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking...
3rd Mar 2025
Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking API would mean fully blocking the page, render and basic user interaction included, while the request is being processed. Although this is apparently good-enough for JSON.parse(),...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Poll: How anxious are you before an interview?
From the HackerNews poll:
Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how...
11th Mar 2023
From the HackerNews poll:
Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how anxious are you before an interview?
To qualify the choices a bit:
Not at all - I feel confident and not worried about the prospect of failure.
A little - I’m fairly confident. Maybe the...
HTMHell
#22 the good ol’ div link
Context: A link to another page.
Bad code
<div>About us</div>
<div...
14th Oct 2020
Context: A link to another page.
Bad code
<div>About us</div>
<div onClick="location.href='about.html'">
About us
</div>
<div data-page="aboutus" data-url="index.php">
About us
</div>
…or any other variation of this pattern where an element other than <a> is used to link to a...
Hixie's Natural Log
Meeting philosophy
Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if...
8th Sep 2023
Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if possible.
Decline any meeting without an explicit agenda (I make exceptions for my immediate manager).
Decline any meeting where the agenda doesn't seem relevant to your work. Decline any...
SOS
Using Dall-E/AI to create kids colouring pages in KidzFun.art
Over the past couple of years I’ve been building KidzFun.art, an art & education app for my young...
9th Apr 2024
Over the past couple of years I’ve been building KidzFun.art, an art & education app for my young kids and hopefully yours. The first feature I ever added was simple colouring pages, hand drawn by my lovely and talented wife. However that was a slow and laborious process, and...
Marco.org
Overcast 5: Watch, Siri, search, and redesign!
I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day.
It all started with the watchOS volume...
17th Sep 2018
I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day.
It all started with the watchOS volume widget.
You see, Overcast’s previous Apple Watch app really sucked. I did my best with the capabilities of watchOS 1–4, but I couldn’t give people what they really wanted:
Standalone podcast...
Charles Chen
AI Startup Moats: The Difference Between Bakers and Ovens
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a...
9th Nov 2024
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a baker?
The Web Witch's Blog
Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: Day 1 as a New Mom and Remote Tech Worker
I started work back up again yesterday, June 1, as a remote tech worker for an open source...
1st Jun 2026
I started work back up again yesterday, June 1, as a remote tech worker for an open source consultancy. My husband started his paternity leave today. I'm only going back part-time for the moment so my rough plan is to work 3 days a week with the exception of this week, as I...
davidyat.es
Adventures in latent space
19th Oct 2023
Cognitive...
Dolphin 🐬
Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and...
2nd Jul 2023
Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and series of instruct-tuned language models based on Microsoft's Orca paper.
The dataset is released here, with Apache-2.0 license. The dataset can be used for commercial or...
Max Schmitt
Next.js: How to add a Contact Form (Pages Router)
Read the post here.
1st Mar 2024
Marc Astbury
Context as the Moat
To build a defensible, enduring business, it is essential to attract, convert, and retain users....
15th Jun 2025
To build a defensible, enduring business, it is essential to attract, convert, and retain users. Ideally, customer reliance on your product should deepen over time, making the cost of switching to a competitor prohibitively high. Consumer-facing AI companies are now grappling...
Engineer’s Codex
Metric-Driven Development and The Claude Effect
Sometimes, feels have to be trusted over figures
9th Mar 2025
Sometimes, feels have to be trusted over figures
macwright.com
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My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own
beer-centric podcast, Taplines,...
1st Jun 2023
Listening
My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own
beer-centric podcast, Taplines, and guest-starred on the enormous
Chapo Trap House podcast.
Reading
It’s been a slow few weeks for books, but since I skipped
Recently in May, I can still talk about Achieving...
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