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Repeat the obvious Bad things happen when we don't repeat the obvious. --> It's 9pm and I'm writing a post for the...
9th Nov 2015
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Repeat the obvious

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Nov 2015
Bad things happen when we don't repeat the obvious. --> It's 9pm and I'm writing a post for the company engineering blog. Every sentence is a slog. Not because I'm exacting and conciseness isn't my strong suit. My writing is slow because every word is obvious, almost...
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A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Side Street Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed another blanket that follows a similar construction as the Library Blanket,...
11th Feb 2022
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A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Side Street Blanket

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

11th Feb 2022
Joelle Hoverson designed another blanket that follows a similar construction as the Library Blanket, so I figured I'd make another color picking tool for the new Side Street Blanket. The varied blocks in this blanket are also made by holding different pairs of yarns together, so...
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Daylight confusion week Time is a river. A violent current of events. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Here we are again:...
29th Oct 2023
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Daylight confusion week

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

29th Oct 2023
Time is a river. A violent current of events. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Here we are again: Daylight Confusion Week. Much of Europe ends Daylight Savings Time today. But North America will neglect their clocks for another week. And for us remoties, that means next week’s...
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Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink augmentation Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows,...
1st Jun 2023
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Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink augmentation

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

1st Jun 2023
Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows, and how we might be able to make these more dynamic.
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Japan's Earthquake and Technology Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in...
16th Mar 2011
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Japan's Earthquake and Technology

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Mar 2011
Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in Northern Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami). Despite Tokyo being several hundred kilometers from the epicenter, it's effects were felt even here (although to a much lesser extent than...
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Improving my productivity in 2018 2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation,...
13th Jan 2018
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Improving my productivity in 2018

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

13th Jan 2018
2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation, built this site and started blogging…
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Top 20 Helpdesk Interview Questions (with answers) Help desk interviews usually test two things at once: whether you understand the technical basics,...
8th Mar 2026
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Top 20 Helpdesk Interview Questions (with answers)

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

8th Mar 2026
Help desk interviews usually test two things at once: whether you understand the technical basics, and whether you can explain those basics to a person who may already be annoyed, confused, or late for a meeting. That combination matters. A support technician who can diagnose a...
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Hacking window titles to help OBS This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a tiny project I wrote...
6th Jun 2023
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Hacking window titles to help OBS

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2023
This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a tiny project I wrote the other day, WTH, or WindowTitleHack, which is meant to force a constant window name for apps that keep changing it (I'm looking specifically at Firefox and Krita, but there are...
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You Don't Need Stream Deck, You Need Macros One day, during one of those meetings that did not require my full attention, I was doing some work...
9th May 2024
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You Don't Need Stream Deck, You Need Macros

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

9th May 2024
One day, during one of those meetings that did not require my full attention, I was doing some work in the background. I muted my microphone, and I was coding away[1]. Suddenly, someone asked me a question. "Now, where is that goddamn Teams window so I can unmute my microphone?!"...
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The Long Run They say only one out of 1000–2000 startups becomes a unicorn, and that only 1% of humans will ever...
7th Dec 2025
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The Long Run

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2025
They say only one out of 1000–2000 startups becomes a unicorn, and that only 1% of humans will ever finish a marathon. If you had asked my mother, though, she would have told you it was a thousand times more likely I’d build a billion-dollar tech company than finish a marathon....
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Building the deployment tool I wish I had
6th May 2026
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Building the deployment tool I wish I had

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th May 2026
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Why I crave mistakes I’ve mentioned many [https://joel.is/post/5961172449/beware-of-the-social-ideas]...
3rd Jun 2012
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Why I crave mistakes

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

3rd Jun 2012
I’ve mentioned many [https://joel.is/post/5961172449/beware-of-the-social-ideas] times [https://joel.is/post/23348997538/what-online-gaming-taught-me-about-startups] before [https://joel.is/post/12790799237/achieving-scale-by-doing-things-that-dont-scale] on this blog that I...
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Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all...
13th Nov 2021
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Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard

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

13th Nov 2021
I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all sorts of hassles and problems, from hangs on suspend to pure failure to boot. I still worry a bit about suspend on unknown hardware, but by and large, the picture of Linux on laptops...
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Type Safety (workshop) TypeScript's type system: learn type aliases, unions, generics, intersections, and more to catch...
18th Feb 2026
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Type Safety (workshop)

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

18th Feb 2026
TypeScript's type system: learn type aliases, unions, generics, intersections, and more to catch bugs at compile time instead of in production.
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OpenClaw is my new coworker What happens when you give AI its own laptop
2nd Feb 2026
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OpenClaw is my new coworker

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2026
What happens when you give AI its own laptop
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Halloween Nerd Projects 👻 Last year I got 229 trick-or-treaters at my house. Candy, yo! The previous year it was 194. The...
30th Oct 2018
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Halloween Nerd Projects 👻

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

30th Oct 2018
Last year I got 229 trick-or-treaters at my house. Candy, yo! The previous year it was 194. The year before that it was 176. The year before that I lived in a duplex that was roughly two blocks from my current house; that year I didn’t think to track how many trick-or-treaters...
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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past...
7th Dec 2022
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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux

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

7th Dec 2022
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop...
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The Dopamine Problem Every New Manager Face I recently wrote an internal Management 101 guide for new RevenueCat managers. It is not meant to be...
10th Jul 2026
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The Dopamine Problem Every New Manager Face

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jul 2026
I recently wrote an internal Management 101 guide for new RevenueCat managers. It is not meant to be a universal management guide. Most universal management advice is either too vague to be useful or too generic to survive contact with a real company. My goal was simpler: explain...
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Fight knowledge decay with a rich Incident Summary It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of...
14th Jun 2024
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Fight knowledge decay with a rich Incident Summary

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jun 2024
It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of writing things down. That’s why so many companies’ incident response protocols define a scribe role. The scribe’s job, generally, is to take notes on everything that happens. In other...
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Career Development For Engineering Managers (Cross-posted from leaddev.com) What comes to mind when you hear the words, ‘career development for...
3rd Jun 2021
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Career Development For Engineering Managers

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

3rd Jun 2021
(Cross-posted from leaddev.com) What comes to mind when you hear the words, ‘career development for managers’? If you’re like me, it’s one of two things: either obsessively climbing the ladder or those awful mandatory ‘trainings’ that get hastily assembled. (Otherwise known as,...
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Effective code review Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most...
25th Jul 2020
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Effective code review

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jul 2020
Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most tech companies1. However, it is not always implemented as well as it should. In this post, I will describe some practices that I try to follow when opening pull requests, and that...
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What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
3rd May 2024
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What is psephology?

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2024
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
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Jazz Ukuele Video: What's New? I arranged and recorded a jazz ukulele version of the classic song 'What's New?'
2nd Apr 2010
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Jazz Ukuele Video: What's New?

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

2nd Apr 2010
I arranged and recorded a jazz ukulele version of the classic song 'What's New?'
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How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different? Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
1st May 2019
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How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?

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

1st May 2019
Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
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Boot.dev Beat. December 2022 I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from...
6th Jan 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. December 2022

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

6th Jan 2023
I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from writing code, which I haven’t done in a long time. It’s good to be back though, and I can’t wait to see you around the Discord community.
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[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at...
13th Jul 2015
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[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier

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

13th Jul 2015
I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at first -- I'm a big fan of Schneier's posts online, but I found this randomly at the library and I was hoping not to be disappointed. In the end, it was well worth the read. The book...
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From Mac to Windows From Mac to Windows
12th Aug 2020
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From Mac to Windows

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Aug 2020
From Mac to Windows
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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I’m a big...
3rd Oct 2022
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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery

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

3rd Oct 2022
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I’m a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of “brutalist” or minimalist design, so I’m always inspired...
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Spring cleaning is in full effect March was all about bug fixes. This month don’t expect too many new features, but instead get...
5th Apr 2023
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Spring cleaning is in full effect

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

5th Apr 2023
March was all about bug fixes. This month don’t expect too many new features, but instead get excited about improved stability and closed issue reports! The team has been hard at work sorting through your feedback and smoothing out all of the wrinkles. Sideload Since sideloading...
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Querying through shadow roots Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from...
4th Aug 2021
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Querying through shadow roots

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

4th Aug 2021
Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace. <sl-button>Click me</sl-button> Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
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Programming avant-garde
31st Oct 2024
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Programming avant-garde

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Oct 2024
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Website themes with uBlock Origin Browser extensions like Stylish, Stylus or Tampermonkey make it possible to create custom website...
1st Feb 2024
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Website themes with uBlock Origin

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

1st Feb 2024
Browser extensions like Stylish, Stylus or Tampermonkey make it possible to create custom website themes/skins. At the same time, I try to lower the number of add-ons that I use, mostly due to security and performance reasons. Interestingly, the uBlock Origin ad blocker can...
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Decaf is good, actually We have made decaf a villain. We often malign decaf coffee and those who drink it. "No thanks, give...
1st Apr 2024
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Decaf is good, actually

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

1st Apr 2024
We have made decaf a villain. We often malign decaf coffee and those who drink it. "No thanks, give me the good stuff." "Death before decaf." "Decaf isn't coffee." It has this reputation that it's bad and that coffee people avoid it. And yet, if you drink decaf, you're a true...
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Middle management roles are also a trap. Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles...
8th Aug 2026
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Middle management roles are also a trap.

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

8th Aug 2026
Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles present themselves as easier than moving into a full management role, but the tension between doing the software engineering and engineering management aspects of the role made being...
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Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped[1] by the mention of...
4th Mar 2024
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Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust

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

4th Mar 2024
Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped[1] by the mention of Bleichenbacher's attack on RSA. This is cool, how does it work? I had to understand, and to understand something, I usually have to build it. Well, friends, that is what I did. I implemented...
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how to make a game engine Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript without any AI help. That is right, 100% pure...
20th Dec 2025
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how to make a game engine

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

20th Dec 2025
Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript without any AI help. That is right, 100% pure manmade code. How hard can it be?
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Plates and states I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I...
14th Aug 2024
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Plates and states

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Aug 2024
I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I was drawn to the license plates on passing cars, and how they look different to the cars I’m used to. Whenever I visit new places, I enjoy looking for the tiny bits of infrastructure...
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Breaking Barbarian This week in a [Svelte Radio recording](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1555596996744028160),...
7th Aug 2022
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Breaking Barbarian

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

7th Aug 2022
This week in a [Svelte Radio recording](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1555596996744028160), @rich-harris commented that something I said was "uniquely swyx": an offhand observation that "we are all professional streamers now" [^1]. I responded that I've been calling this...
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Taking a break I've been publishing at least one blog post every week on this blog for about 2.5 years. I kept it...
5th May 2025
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Taking a break

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

5th May 2025
I've been publishing at least one blog post every week on this blog for about 2.5 years. I kept it up even when I was very sick last year with Lyme disease. It's time for me to take a break and reset. This is the right time, because the world is very difficult for me to move...
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10 Myths of Enterprise Python (Originally posted on the PayPal Engineering blog, reproduced here with minor updates, link fixes,...
25th Aug 2015
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10 Myths of Enterprise Python

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Aug 2015
(Originally posted on the PayPal Engineering blog, reproduced here with minor updates, link fixes, etc.) PayPal enjoys a remarkable amount of linguistic pluralism in its programming culture. In addition to the long-standing popularity of C++ and Java, an increasing number of...
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How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to...
4th Feb 2022
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How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit

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

4th Feb 2022
As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence.
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Postleaf: reimagined It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging...
26th Apr 2017
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Postleaf: reimagined

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

26th Apr 2017
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging platform. The initial version was well-received, landing an article on TechCrunch and making its way to #1 for the day on Product Hunt. (Thank you so much, everyone!) Today, I'm...
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Simple Accessibility Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
7th Sep 2018
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Simple Accessibility

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

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...
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Take a hard game, and make it shorter You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels,...
16th Feb 2026
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Take a hard game, and make it shorter

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

16th Feb 2026
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
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Recently October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
1st Nov 2023
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Recently

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

1st Nov 2023
October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New York culture: I saw an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, and then went to see prog-metal band Polyphia play guitar solos as fast as possible. At the latter, there were multiple...
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Generate random passwords in PHP Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for...
17th May 2008
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Generate random passwords in PHP

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

17th May 2008
Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for generating passwords. You can specify the length of the resulting string, as well as what characters are allowed. The default length is eight and the default character set is...
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The Engineer/Manager Pendulum Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama...
11th May 2017
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The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

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

11th May 2017
Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama for many people goes something like this: “I’m a senior engineer, but I’m thinking about being a manager. I really like engineering, but I feel like I’m just solving the same...
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Code Review Decision Fatigue People think they lack motivation, what they really lack is clarity – James Clear, Atomic...
12th Mar 2022
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Code Review Decision Fatigue

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

12th Mar 2022
People think they lack motivation, what they really lack is clarity – James Clear, Atomic Habits Code review innocently asks a staggering question: “does this code look good to you?” It’s not even clear how to start to answer this question – which makes putting off code reviews...
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Treats from git's contrib tools🍭 .title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here,...
1st Jan 2024
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Treats from git's contrib tools🍭

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

1st Jan 2024
.title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones Junio C Hamano, git/contrib/README Git bundles handy tools along with its source repo. They live in a directory named contrib—short for contributed...
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#13 link or label Bad code <input type="checkbox" id="accept" required> <label for="accept"> <a href="/legal"> I...
15th Jan 2020
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#13 link or label

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jan 2020
Bad code <input type="checkbox" id="accept" required> <label for="accept"> <a href="/legal"> I accept the confidentiality policy and data… </a> </label> Issues and how to fix them It’s bad practice to nest elements with activation behavior (e.g. click). Users don’t expect a new...
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Just the regularly scheduled apocalypse
10th Sep 2013
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Just the regularly scheduled apocalypse

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

10th Sep 2013
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How To Google Your Errors ---
4th Jan 2018
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How To Google Your Errors

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4th Jan 2018
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Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us...
9th Jan 2023
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Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jan 2023
ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009. It happened with our Physics Project in 2020. And it’s happening now with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time...
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Browser makers: where’s the new tab + homepage option? Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful...
7th Aug 2009
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Browser makers: where’s the new tab + homepage option?

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

7th Aug 2009
Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful of tabs open in my web browser at any time. Whether I'm developing, checking email, or just surfing around, I can never seem to have enough tabs! But there's one thing about this...
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Spring 2021 We have some great new features launching in the next few weeks.
18th Aug 2021
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Spring 2021

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

18th Aug 2021
We have some great new features launching in the next few weeks.
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
2nd Apr 2023
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201

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

2nd Apr 2023
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a “downgrade” in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
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Build vs Buy: age old dilemma The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch...
5th Mar 2023
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Build vs Buy: age old dilemma

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

5th Mar 2023
The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch or buy some off-the-shelf solution? […] The post Build vs Buy: age old dilemma appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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My Stance on AI in Software Development I believe artificial intelligence is a powerful and valuable tool that can significantly improve how...
20th Apr 2026
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My Stance on AI in Software Development

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

20th Apr 2026
I believe artificial intelligence is a powerful and valuable tool that can significantly improve how we create, solve problems, and bring ideas to life. I didn't always feel this way.. But these days, I use AI regularly in my work and I expect that to continue. We may not have...
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New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your laptop and desktop computers Four more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your laptop and desktop...
14th Dec 2018
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New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your laptop and desktop computers

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

14th Dec 2018
Four more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your laptop and desktop computers: Physical attacks to your computers and disk encryption Liz and Geoffrey are back with a look at physical computer security - just how much trouble could someone cause if...
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Intentional Creation Reliably tap into your creativity with the 4 Cs: Consume, critique, curate, create. This is one of...
4th Jan 2023
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Intentional Creation

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2023
Reliably tap into your creativity with the 4 Cs: Consume, critique, curate, create. This is one of my oldest ideas, finally published on the GitHub ReadME Project blog, along with a profile, in June 2022. For more like this, follow me on Twitter or Mastodon. (You can also read it...
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Winner, Name that Ware March 2023 The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”....
30th Apr 2023
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Winner, Name that Ware March 2023

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

30th Apr 2023
The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”. Congrats to jackw01 for arriving at the correct answer! congrats, email me for your prize. This one was surprisingly difficult to guess from just the PCB alone, but once the associated...
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How to Use Golang's Generics [Updated since 1.18] Generics in Go have been released with Go 1.18! This is one of the most eagerly-awaited features...
6th Dec 2021
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How to Use Golang's Generics [Updated since 1.18]

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

6th Dec 2021
Generics in Go have been released with Go 1.18! This is one of the most eagerly-awaited features since the release of the language. Many devs have gone so far as to say Go’s previous lack of generic types made the language too painful to use at all. Let’s dive into what generics...
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Designers Need Thicker Skin Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I'm not normally one to comment or even really care about...
10th Jul 2017
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Designers Need Thicker Skin

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

10th Jul 2017
Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I'm not normally one to comment or even really care about "drama" within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
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On ditching hourly and productizing my services In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely...
5th Dec 2024
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On ditching hourly and productizing my services

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2024
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely these days, for clients both in the Netherlands and abroad. And I like it that way. Don’t get me wrong, I like to drive, but commuting takes up a lot of time, time I would rather...
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The gift of constraints One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do...
9th Sep 2024
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The gift of constraints

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

9th Sep 2024
One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do the best possible work everywhere, but optimizing every piece takes time, and time is finite. I’ve done a poor job here countless times in my career. And I have seen many others...
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The third hard problem
28th Feb 2026
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The third hard problem

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28th Feb 2026
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How to Get a Software Developer Job in Japan I came to Japan on a working holiday visa in 2006, and [found a job as a Ruby...
22nd Jun 2016
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How to Get a Software Developer Job in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2016
I came to Japan on a working holiday visa in 2006, and [found a job as a Ruby developer](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan) at a Japanese startup. At the time, options for English speaking developers in Japan were few and far between: I could only find two...
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Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL Explain Extended New Year's post solving the Rubik's Cube in SQL The post Happy New Year: solving...
31st Dec 2022
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Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL

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

31st Dec 2022
Explain Extended New Year's post solving the Rubik's Cube in SQL The post Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
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Adding Gutenberg Full- and Wide-Width Image Support to Your WordPress Theme Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article...
16th Mar 2019
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Adding Gutenberg Full- and Wide-Width Image Support to Your WordPress Theme

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

16th Mar 2019
Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article talks about how to enable support for that feature in your theme, and one way to write the CSS that makes it work.
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How I write blog posts every month What I've learned after writing regularly for half a year.
17th Feb 2018
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How I write blog posts every month

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

17th Feb 2018
What I've learned after writing regularly for half a year.
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The hardest decision I've ever made
17th Nov 2010
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The hardest decision I've ever made

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

17th Nov 2010
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Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory...
3rd Apr 2023
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Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends

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

3rd Apr 2023
The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory workers, and in a twist of irony, it’s now taking the jobs of those who developed its predecessors – the software developers. At least that’s what many alarmist headlines are saying...
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Permanent Residency vs Naturalization in Japan: What Does the Data Tell Us? If you pay attention to news site headlines and videos from various influencers, then you’ve...
16th Feb 2026
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Permanent Residency vs Naturalization in Japan: What Does the Data Tell Us?

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Feb 2026
If you pay attention to news site headlines and videos from various influencers, then you’ve probably heard some of these claims involving international residents in Japan: Nobody stays more than a few years Permanent residency is impossible to get Citizenship is easy to...
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Square joy: tile crush
16th Dec 2024
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Square joy: tile crush

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Dec 2024
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Negotiable Abstractions 2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
21st Dec 2023
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Negotiable Abstractions

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Dec 2023
2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...
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Name that Ware, October 2025 The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I...
30th Oct 2025
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Name that Ware, October 2025

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

30th Oct 2025
The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I really can’t get enough of how the whole device is integrated with a multi-layer stacked PCB. I imagine that inside the middle of the stack there could be some interesting circuitry...
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Explore Wallpapers for Mac Many years ago (2010 or so) I released an app called Flickr Addict for Palm WebOS phones, which...
22nd Apr 2025
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Explore Wallpapers for Mac

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2025
Many years ago (2010 or so) I released an app called Flickr Addict for Palm WebOS phones, which automatically downloaded beautiful images from the Flickr photography website and changed the phone background image on a regular basis. I wanted to see if I could rebuild that app in...
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Embeds and Quotations in Writing Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and...
2nd Nov 2023
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Embeds and Quotations in Writing

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

2nd Nov 2023
Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and quotations in my writing. A lot of my blogging is quoting other people. I remember debating the use of social embeds on my blog because I quoted a lot of things on Twitter. But I...
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Bright Barley Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
22nd Apr 2022
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Bright Barley

from Identity Designed [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2022
Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
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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
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From roots to polynomials

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

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...
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Efficiently updating implicit in-order forests
3rd Jul 2023
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Efficiently updating implicit in-order forests

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jul 2023
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The Cloud Computer Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first commercial cloud computer —...
26th Oct 2023
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The Cloud Computer

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Oct 2023
Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first commercial cloud computer — along with our $44M Series A financing. From the outset at Oxide, and as I outlined in my 2020 Stanford talk, we have had three core beliefs as a company: Cloud computing is the...
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Beckett 01 · Version Control for Space and Structure Exploring version control for spatial and hierarchical data in Godot scenes.
10th Nov 2025
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Beckett 01 · Version Control for Space and Structure

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

10th Nov 2025
Exploring version control for spatial and hierarchical data in Godot scenes.
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In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
18th Jul 2026
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In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors

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

18th Jul 2026
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My...
13th May 2022
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website

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

13th May 2022
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter > 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost...
1st Nov 2024
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter

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

1st Nov 2024
> 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost $222.51 one way (44min labor pickup 55min labor dropoff, which i think was fraud, no way dropoff cost more than pickup) and total base fare 38 + 14.5 fee. for the two way move price i...
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Annual Review 2025 As was the case in 2023, I’m back in Yunnan writing the annual review. This time sitting in Matchbox...
2nd Jan 2026
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Annual Review 2025

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

2nd Jan 2026
As was the case in 2023, I’m back in Yunnan writing the annual review. This time sitting in Matchbox coffee shop in Shaxi, the sky is pure blue and the farmers fields below are a dusty yellow. My fingers are freezing as I type but the pain is negated by the joy of wearing a...
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Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
1st Dec 2024
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Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2024
I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
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Take a hard game, and make it shorter You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels,...
16th Feb 2026
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Take a hard game, and make it shorter

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

16th Feb 2026
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
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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...
13th Jun 2023
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Has Anyone Noticed How Bloated The Internet Has Become?

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

13th Jun 2023
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...
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Simple image vectorization Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out...
7th Mar 2019
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Simple image vectorization

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

7th Mar 2019
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out of it. The algorithm describes shows how bilinear interpolation, polynomial approximation, differential analysis, and iterative algorithms work together to solve a practical...
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Why Are People Still Using C? C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand...
2nd Aug 2023
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Why Are People Still Using C?

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

2nd Aug 2023
C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand why, unless there is a lot of existing code to support, I can't fathom why anyone would start something new in 2023 in C. I first learned C in
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To Serve Man, with Software I didn't choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed, the computers chose me. For a long time,...
31st Dec 2017
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To Serve Man, with Software

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

31st Dec 2017
I didn't choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed, the computers chose me. For a long time, that was fine, that was enough; that was all I needed. But along the way I never felt that being a programmer was this unambiguously great-for-everyone career field with zero
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CSS: Indenting Text CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
5th Apr 2019
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CSS: Indenting Text

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

5th Apr 2019
CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn't an insult - I'm happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
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The Death of Personality The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
1st Nov 2017
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The Death of Personality

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

1st Nov 2017
The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it’s fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple’s iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
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The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media I'm delighted to share that we have...
30th Jul 2024
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The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media

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

30th Jul 2024
The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media I'm delighted to share that we have introduced support for Bluesky in Buffer. This is an important moment for us as a company, and there are a number of reasons that adding Bluesky is personally meaningful for me. With...
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How to Throw A Company Offsite In A “Post-COVID” World Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since...
28th Feb 2023
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How to Throw A Company Offsite In A “Post-COVID” World

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

28th Feb 2023
Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since February of 2020, before the plague. It was wonderful and glorious and silly and energizing and so, so SO much fun. It was a potent reminder of the reality that no virtual...
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What I'm up to - December 2023 This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2023
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What I'm up to - December 2023

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

1st Dec 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Started writing some essays about online work, dependability, tools, and craft on t...
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I am tired of AI Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same...
17th Sep 2024
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I am tired of AI

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Sep 2024
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development, and in life in...
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LLM text makes human interactions less fun
12th Jan 2025
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LLM text makes human interactions less fun

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jan 2025
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Big Tech job-switching stats Which companies grew their software engineering headcount, which ones shrank, and how has the...
3rd Mar 2023
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Big Tech job-switching stats

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

3rd Mar 2023
Which companies grew their software engineering headcount, which ones shrank, and how has the “open-to-new-opportunities” ratio shifted across Big Tech? I collaborated with a recruiter to find out, and the data is in.
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For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and...
2nd Jul 2023
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For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words

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

2nd Jul 2023
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
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What is Backend-as-a-Service? Plenty of people have heard of SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service, which is simply software made...
5th Dec 2022
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What is Backend-as-a-Service?

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

5th Dec 2022
Plenty of people have heard of SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service, which is simply software made available by a third party over the internet. Think Salesforce, WordPress, or MailChimp. And most people know what a “backend developer” is, that is, someone who is responsible for things...
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Supporting communities that empower women in technology Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last...
6th Feb 2023
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Supporting communities that empower women in technology

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2023
Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last survey's results, published in December 2022, I explored [the connection between gender and compensation](/insights/2022-developer-survey#salary-by-gender). The results were...
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What I'm up to - March 2023 ✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups...
1st Mar 2023
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What I'm up to - March 2023

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

1st Mar 2023
✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups develop new products. For the last six months, I've unintentionally been working almost exclusively wit...
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A dive into the AMD driver workflow I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real...
7th Jun 2023
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A dive into the AMD driver workflow

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

7th Jun 2023
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real technical information, but it did include some great phrases like “I am able to replicate the issues you are facing” and some mockable phrases like “We are hoping that this will...
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Book Review: 'The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World' Excellent book about the history of precision machining
1st Jul 2024
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Book Review: 'The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World'

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2024
Excellent book about the history of precision machining
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Coding with LLMs can lead to more and better software We are in the early days with a new technology. There is a lot of hype around LLMs, and takes on...
3rd Apr 2023
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Coding with LLMs can lead to more and better software

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

3rd Apr 2023
We are in the early days with a new technology. There is a lot of hype around LLMs, and takes on every end of the spectrum. Some predict that programmers will be out of a job sooner than later. Others predict that these will just contribute to spam. Today I'd like to focus on one...
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No more boring drawings! Many drawing tutorials show us how to draw things. They teach us how to make photo-like drawings....
28th Jan 2026
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No more boring drawings!

from Ralph Ammer [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jan 2026
Many drawing tutorials show us how to draw things. They teach us how to make photo-like drawings. Such renderings look decent but also generic, conventional—like something an AI tool might produce. And they are also…  boring. Why is that? Because they don’t mean anything. Meaning...
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A Local-First Task Framework sharing the load
3rd Apr 2026
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A Local-First Task Framework

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

3rd Apr 2026
sharing the load
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Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos...
15th Oct 2023
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Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Oct 2023
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos Library. I don’t really want to pay for the next iCloud storage tier – I’d be tripling my bill, but I’d barely use the extra space. (My library grows pretty slowly – I’ve only added ~6GB of...
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L'Insurrection qui vient I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and...
7th Jun 2010
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L'Insurrection qui vient

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

7th Jun 2010
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and the stories towards which I let my eyes venture. Rereading tends to bring a part of me back to previous points in times, and occasionally, I partake in this. But there are few...
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How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
2nd Oct 2023
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How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Oct 2023
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
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Inferring Cruise occupancy from Kyle Vogt’s fleet dashboard screenshot Background Last month, Kyle Vogt (CEO of Cruise) tweeted a screenshot of Cruise’s fleet management...
5th Jan 2023
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Inferring Cruise occupancy from Kyle Vogt’s fleet dashboard screenshot

from Kevin Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jan 2023
Background Last month, Kyle Vogt (CEO of Cruise) tweeted a screenshot of Cruise’s fleet management dashboard: The press: AVs are over-hyped and are still 5-10 years away. Us: At this moment there are 100 @Cruise AVs in driverless mode in SF, and many are currently carrying...
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Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 1
5th Apr 2016
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Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 1

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

5th Apr 2016
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Messing with bots Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
13th Nov 2025
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Messing with bots

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

13th Nov 2025
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
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#21 Legendary legend! Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text. Bad code <button...
24th Jul 2020
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#21 Legendary legend!

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jul 2020
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text. Bad code <button class="panel-heading" tabindex="0" href="#collapse0" aria-expanded="true"> <legend> Industries Served </legend> </button> Issues and how to fix them legend is not allowed as a child of any other...
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Learn ESLint concepts, not rules What is ESLint and why is it useful? A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's...
1st Aug 2019
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Learn ESLint concepts, not rules

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

1st Aug 2019
What is ESLint and why is it useful? A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's start with the problems we have when writing JavaScript code. Problem #1: JavaScript is not compiled while you write it
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2026 We’re off to an incredible start to 2026. December of 2025 broke a new record with 3,075,904 lessons...
13th Jan 2026
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2026

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

13th Jan 2026
We’re off to an incredible start to 2026. December of 2025 broke a new record with 3,075,904 lessons completed and 82,578 training grounds challenges completed during the month! In January, I’m writing this on the 13th, and we’re already at 1,657,581 lessons and 47,795 challenges...
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“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the...
17th Dec 2024
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“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking

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

17th Dec 2024
I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal...
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Adding unpack syntax to RCL
7th Dec 2025
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Adding unpack syntax to RCL

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2025
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2023 The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the...
31st May 2023
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2023

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

31st May 2023
The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the month without being guessed, but congrats to cpresser for figuring it out in the last week! email me for your prize. Here’s some more context images of the ware. The colored filter...
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Ten Platform Commandments On Monday I gave a talk at DOES18 called “All the World’s a Platform”, where I talked about a bunch...
24th Oct 2018
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Ten Platform Commandments

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

24th Oct 2018
On Monday I gave a talk at DOES18 called “All the World’s a Platform”, where I talked about a bunch of the lessons learned by using and abusing and running and building platforms at scale. I promised to do a blog post with the takeaways, so here they are. Platform Commandment #1:...
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The Gift Economy Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
3rd Aug 2020
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The Gift Economy

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

3rd Aug 2020
Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
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7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is...
4th Jan 2022
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7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer

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

4th Jan 2022
If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is focusing on Python best practices. It’s really important that your code is readable, testable, and maintainable. From picking good variable names, refactoring code that gets repeated...
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How to Process Customer Criticism Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?!...
1st Sep 2020
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How to Process Customer Criticism

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

1st Sep 2020
Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?! Design is super subjective, and everyone is a critic! Regardless of your education or how sharp your design eye is, you’ll never be able to please everyone. This is especially true...
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Privacy Monthly July 2024
16th Jul 2024
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Privacy Monthly July 2024

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2024
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Prescription Form UI Improvements Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
13th Mar 2019
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Prescription Form UI Improvements

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

13th Mar 2019
Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn't bad per se, but it could certainly be improved. Current design of the...
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What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC? An overview of the cool technical building blocks behind EndBASIC and what they could turn into if...
8th May 2026
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What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC?

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

8th May 2026
An overview of the cool technical building blocks behind EndBASIC and what they could turn into if they evolved on their own
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January 2026
2nd Jan 2026
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January 2026

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

2nd Jan 2026
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My favourite websites from my bookmark collection Over the last three weeks, I’ve been writing about how I manage my bookmarks. how I use a static...
2nd Jun 2025
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My favourite websites from my bookmark collection

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jun 2025
Over the last three weeks, I’ve been writing about how I manage my bookmarks. how I use a static site to store them, how I built a personal web archive by hand, and what I learnt about web development along the way. I wanted to end this series on a lighter note, so here’s a...
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Lisp: Icing or Cake? The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the...
1st Jun 2024
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Lisp: Icing or Cake?

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2024
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how people approached...
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僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について This article is also available [in...
29th Sep 2021
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僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Sep 2021
This article is also available [in...
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Building Custom React Hooks Illustrated notes on building custom React hooks
2nd Nov 2019
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Building Custom React Hooks

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

2nd Nov 2019
Illustrated notes on building custom React hooks
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Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data Everything you need to know about what API's are and how they work
10th Apr 2019
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Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data

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

10th Apr 2019
Everything you need to know about what API's are and how they work
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Bulk actions take tag_id, not tag The tag key in a bulk action's metadata is renamed to tag_id
2nd Jan 2025
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Bulk actions take tag_id, not tag

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

2nd Jan 2025
The tag key in a bulk action's metadata is renamed to tag_id
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In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
18th Jul 2026
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In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors

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

18th Jul 2026
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
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Taking web search through the last mile (This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog (...
1st Dec 2019
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Taking web search through the last mile

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

1st Dec 2019
(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog ( https://web.archive.org/web/20200927234617/https://kagi.ai/last-mile-for-web-search.html ) a few short years ago.
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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...
9th Nov 2023
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Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did

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

9th Nov 2023
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...
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Will AI destroy B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
7th Dec 2024
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Will AI destroy B2B SaaS?

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

7th Dec 2024
TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever. The discovery problem. ...
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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...
2 weeks ago
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CSS-Tricks could be a co-op

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

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

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

3rd Apr 2025
I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking application, and a keylogger that let me keep track of when I was using a computer, and generate some pretty charts. I’ve taken a long break from those kinds of things. I love my...
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The Bouquet Residence Keeping up appearances in tech The word "rant" is used far too often,...
23rd Jul 2024
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The Bouquet Residence

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

23rd Jul 2024
Keeping up appearances in tech The word "rant" is used far too often, and in various ways. It's meant to imply aimless, angry venting. But often it means: Naming problems without proposing solutions, this makes me feel confused. Naming problems and...
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GitHub is anarchy for programmers
1st Oct 2011
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GitHub is anarchy for programmers

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

1st Oct 2011
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On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
13th Apr 2024
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On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars

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

13th Apr 2024
How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
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Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (and working with a... 1981 was a different time for computing. It was expensive (both hardware and software), and it was...
3rd Aug 2026
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Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (and working with a decades-old C codebase)

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

3rd Aug 2026
1981 was a different time for computing. It was expensive (both hardware and software), and it was far from a given that machines from one vendor would be able to talk to those from another. In fact, Columbia University had just such a problem, so in 1981, Frank da Cruz and Bill...
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AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You .highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color:...
22nd Apr 2024
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AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You

from Renegade Otter [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2024
.highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color: var(--theme-secondary-background-color); border-radius: 10px; } The firehose of data is turned on In the beginning, the Internet was a small, cozy place. Most people weren’t online, and most businesses...
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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
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Compare to None

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

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...
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About antisocialne.ws
3rd Apr 2012
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About antisocialne.ws

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

3rd Apr 2012
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025 Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children...
2nd Jan 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025

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

2nd Jan 2025
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children just won’t stop being sick for more than 4 days at a time. Win some, lose some.
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Epistemic Disclosure Providing clear metadata on the epistemic validity of content
10th Nov 2021
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Epistemic Disclosure

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

10th Nov 2021
Providing clear metadata on the epistemic validity of content
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Going on maternity leave tl;dr summary # I'm heading out on maternity leave a little earlier than planned. I'm not sure where...
12th Dec 2025
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Going on maternity leave

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

12th Dec 2025
tl;dr summary # I'm heading out on maternity leave a little earlier than planned. I'm not sure where the last eight and a half months have gone but here we are! It's a very weird feeling to be prepping and handing off projects. All of my co-workers have been so lovely and...
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Every Man his own API A sociotechnological trend
9th Nov 2024
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Every Man his own API

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Nov 2024
A sociotechnological trend
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When You Get to Be Smart Writing a Macro Day-to-day programming isn’t always exciting. Most of the code we write is pretty straightforward:...
1st May 2025
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When You Get to Be Smart Writing a Macro

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2025
Day-to-day programming isn’t always exciting. Most of the code we write is pretty straightforward: open a file, apply a function, commit a transaction, send JSON. Finding a problem that can be solved not the hard way, but smart way, is quite rare. I’m really happy I found this...
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Accurate Predictions In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air....
6th Jun 2023
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Accurate Predictions

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2023
In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air. Somewhere midway through this book, this paragraph stood out to me: “Either way, until 2022, Americans will live in an acutely changed world—they will be wearing masks, for example,...
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Zen Browser review and benchmark vs Chrome, Brave, Firefox and Safari I'm looking for a new daily driver browser on my Mac. Chrome is a non-starter for me due to privacy...
2nd Nov 2024
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Zen Browser review and benchmark vs Chrome, Brave, Firefox and Safari

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

2nd Nov 2024
I'm looking for a new daily driver browser on my Mac. Chrome is a non-starter for me due to privacy concerns (Google's tracking empire is alive and well), and Edge is just... too much. Every update shoves another set of “features” down my throat — Copilot, discount coupons, Bing...
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Winner, Name that Ware October 2025 Last month’s ware is an ADAS1010, described on the Analog devices website as a “15 Lead ECG Vital...
29th Nov 2025
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Winner, Name that Ware October 2025

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

29th Nov 2025
Last month’s ware is an ADAS1010, described on the Analog devices website as a “15 Lead ECG Vital Signs Monitor Module with Respiration, Temperature and Blood Pressure Measurement”. It advertises a “robust, with electromagnetic interference (EMI), shock, and vibration resistant...
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Creating dynamic bar charts with CSS grid How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library...
24th Mar 2022
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Creating dynamic bar charts with CSS grid

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

24th Mar 2022
How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library required!
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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...
31st Dec 2019
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Happy New Year: a stereogram in SQL

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

31st Dec 2019
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,...
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The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and...
2nd Jul 2025
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The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit

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

2nd Jul 2025
In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and reproduced it with basic components. We observed that it did not behave quite as expected. In this article, we’ll look into the missing pieces. An incomplete circuit For a hint, we’ll...
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Drawing repetitive radial artworks I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just...
1st Jun 2024
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Drawing repetitive radial artworks

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2024
I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just had a text from a friend about an upcoming trip to Ireland, and she’d sent me the four-leafed clover emoji (🍀), so I was sketching some petal-like shapes. These are a few of my...
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A few weird ways of displaying git hashes I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement. While talking...
7th Aug 2023
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A few weird ways of displaying git hashes

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

7th Aug 2023
I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement. While talking about why hashes are often represented in hexademical, the author states (emphasis mine): There are other ways to encode binary data for human consumption, but the two most widely...
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Self-documenting Makefiles Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's...
10th Jan 2025
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Self-documenting Makefiles

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

10th Jan 2025
Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's see how to make a build more palatable in this day and age if you choose this tool.
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Texttools dot py I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain...
14th Aug 2024
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Texttools dot py

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

14th Aug 2024
I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain with an image: Paste text in the top box, choose a transform, output appears in the bottom box. I can already do most of these transformations in vim, or with one of the many...
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Sketches I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face. Faces...
31st Jan 2026
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Sketches

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

31st Jan 2026
I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face. Faces are different for me than any other kind of drawing. Somewhere in the process the face looks real enough for me to recognize it as a human being, if it's a good drawing. About 30% of...
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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
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The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)

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

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...
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Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top...
9th Oct 2024
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Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Oct 2024
In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top 10. For each entry, I’ll show you how to perform experiments on APIs to test for the vulnerability, and I’ll discuss my observations. I’ll use different APIs as test subjects in...
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Email tracking is now off by default Buttondown is turning off analytics by default for all new users
1st Mar 2021
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Email tracking is now off by default

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

1st Mar 2021
Buttondown is turning off analytics by default for all new users
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What I'm up to - August 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2024
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What I'm up to - August 2024

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

1st Aug 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in late June + July - Been working hard on Find AI - rolling out lots of feature and updates, st...
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liteparser: a fast, embeddable SQLite parser A complete SQLite parser you can embed anywhere.
11th Mar 2026
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liteparser: a fast, embeddable SQLite parser

from Marco Bambini [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2026
A complete SQLite parser you can embed anywhere.
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Why SmashingConf SF 2019 will always hold a special spot in my heart I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes. Today is the 15th of April 2020 and when I...
15th Apr 2020
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Why SmashingConf SF 2019 will always hold a special spot in my heart

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

15th Apr 2020
I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes. Today is the 15th of April 2020 and when I look back at the last year, I look at how much has changed in my professional and personal life. It feels like yesterday and forever ago. I did not think I would be in this spot...
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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
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Printable shrinkage rulers

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

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...
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Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics? This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat...
17th Jul 2020
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Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics?

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

17th Jul 2020
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat limited scope, this may be indeed an economical alternative to splines.
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Using buck to build Rust projects
13th Apr 2023
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Using buck to build Rust projects

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

13th Apr 2023
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Running an Effective Book Club at Work Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for...
9th Jul 2022
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Running an Effective Book Club at Work

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

9th Jul 2022
Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for learning. And they're great for group learning, too! We've run a book club at work a few times. Some sessions were more successful than others. The main way our book clubs faltered...
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Announcing What Can’t I Press? I made an app! What Can’t I Press? is an app that allows you to: Read, search, and filter through...
15th Jun 2026
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Announcing What Can’t I Press?

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

15th Jun 2026
I made an app! What Can’t I Press? is an app that allows you to: Read, search, and filter through screen reader keyboard shortcuts. Scan open apps and add their keyboard shortcuts to the collection. Copy a keyboard shortcut to your clipboard, with modifier keys to format the...
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal...
19th May 2021
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design

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

19th May 2021
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol' Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
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Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork...
11th Nov 2022
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Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG

from Fathy Boundjadj [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Nov 2022
I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork of Chromium to support modern web standards. This post explains most patches. Take a picture Chromium is built on top of Blink: an HTML engine forked from WebKit, and Skia: a 2D...
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Privacy Monthly June
10th Jun 2024
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Privacy Monthly June

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jun 2024
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Improving Github's New Design Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
7th Jul 2020
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Improving Github's New Design

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

7th Jul 2020
Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the...
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Chatting about Shadow DOM I had a chance to go on Igalia Chats and walk through the history of Shadow DOM with Eric Meyer,...
5th Dec 2025
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Chatting about Shadow DOM

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2025
I had a chance to go on Igalia Chats and walk through the history of Shadow DOM with Eric Meyer, Brian Kardell, and Jeremy Keith. It was a fun, and pretty light discussion, but I learned a ton. The post Chatting about Shadow DOM appeared first on The History of the Web.
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How to Bootstrap a Town A modest plan
1st Oct 2024
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How to Bootstrap a Town

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2024
A modest plan
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2015-10-13 "So OpenSSL has optional code to reject attempts to use weak DES keys. It, sanely, is not enabled...
13th Oct 2015
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2015-10-13

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

13th Oct 2015
"So OpenSSL has optional code to reject attempts to use weak DES keys. It, sanely, is not enabled by default; if you want it you have to compile with DEVP_CHECK_DES_KEY.Last Thursday it was reported to the openssl-dev mailing list by Ben Kaduk that there was a defect in this...
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How to Pick a Problem So You Want To Do Robots: Part 7. Allright, you’re going to make a general purpose robot. Eventually...
11th Mar 2023
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How to Pick a Problem

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

11th Mar 2023
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 7. Allright, you’re going to make a general purpose robot. Eventually it’s going to do all kinds of things. But right now it doesn’t do anything. What do you try first? In this post we’ll talk about the various pitfalls to avoid when choosing your...
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Marshaling Struct with Special Fields to JSON in Golang This is a short post explaining how I marshaled http.Request into json
1st May 2021
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Marshaling Struct with Special Fields to JSON in Golang

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2021
This is a short post explaining how I marshaled http.Request into json
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The Inverted Reactivity Model of React A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other...
27th Jan 2025
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The Inverted Reactivity Model of React

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jan 2025
A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other frameworks.
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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
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Guile-websocket 0.2.1 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

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...
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Learning Gears > Translations welcome! (Português)
19th Apr 2019
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Learning Gears

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

19th Apr 2019
> Translations welcome! (Português)
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What's next for SemVer
11th Feb 2019
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What's next for SemVer

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

11th Feb 2019
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Guide to fast Next.js Insights into how Tinloof measures website speed with best practices to make faster websites.
15th Jan 2024
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Guide to fast Next.js

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

15th Jan 2024
Insights into how Tinloof measures website speed with best practices to make faster websites.
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javascript weakmaps should be iterable Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be...
19th Aug 2024
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javascript weakmaps should be iterable

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Aug 2024
Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be iterable, and we should fix it.WeakMap A associates a key with a value, as long as the key is otherwise reachable in a program. (It is an .)WeakMapephemeron table When was added to...
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How Did I Become Database Engineer at 23 Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very...
15th Aug 2022
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How Did I Become Database Engineer at 23

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Aug 2022
Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very different cultural background than me. Russians approach life in their own way and some things might seem strange. Still, this was my path and I would like to share it. My name is...
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How Sasha Frere-Jones uses Buttondown Sasha uses Buttondown to publish his writings on music and other topics that spark his interest.
1st Sep 2025
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How Sasha Frere-Jones uses Buttondown

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

1st Sep 2025
Sasha uses Buttondown to publish his writings on music and other topics that spark his interest.
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Errata in Hekaton MVCC paper Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error...
20th Apr 2023
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Errata in Hekaton MVCC paper

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Apr 2023
Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error with one of the authors. This blog post explains the mistake, the implications and the fix.
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Cronometer is a good food diary Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it. It’s a huge...
10th Sep 2023
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Cronometer is a good food diary

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Sep 2023
Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it. It’s a huge improvement over MyFitnessPal (MFP) or Lose It and is not exploitative like Noom. The key improvement with Cronometer is accuracy, particularly good data sources for nutrition...
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Questioning and adjusting our goals * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * People who know...
9th Jan 2011
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Questioning and adjusting our goals

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

9th Jan 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * People who know me know that I like to make things systematic when I can, and doing so helps me make sense of things and have confidence in my actions. In addition to making things systematic, I...
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It is becoming difficult for me to be productive in Python It’s harder to refactor a large Python codebase. Type hints won’t save you, and you need a lot of...
5th Feb 2023
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It is becoming difficult for me to be productive in Python

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2023
It’s harder to refactor a large Python codebase. Type hints won’t save you, and you need a lot of unit tests. But how does that work in practice? Is Python fast to ship?
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What they don’t tell you when you translate your app Forget inverting binary trees, translating or localizing a digital experience is one of the most...
2nd Sep 2021
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What they don’t tell you when you translate your app

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

2nd Sep 2021
Forget inverting binary trees, translating or localizing a digital experience is one of the most difficult things you can do with software. There’s plenty of content out there about how to perform the basic design and development aspects of translation and localization work....
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how to use web workers with typescript A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and...
13th Mar 2022
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how to use web workers with typescript

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

13th Mar 2022
A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and limits
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CSS in React Server Components You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
15th Apr 2024
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CSS in React Server Components

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

15th Apr 2024
You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
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