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Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
28th May 2024
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Daily Inspirational Word

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

28th May 2024
Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a...
2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results *This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an...
7th Jan 2020
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2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2020
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an international software developer looking for a job in Japan, it can be hard to tell what your market rate is. Sure, there's data (in Japanese) for the market as a whole, but that...
The Latest from Our R&D Pipeline: Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica Delivering from Our R&D Pipeline In 2020 it was Versions 12.1 and 12.2; in 2021 Versions 12.3 and...
14th Dec 2022
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The Latest from Our R&D Pipeline: Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica

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

14th Dec 2022
Delivering from Our R&D Pipeline In 2020 it was Versions 12.1 and 12.2; in 2021 Versions 12.3 and 13.0. In late June this year it was Version 13.1. And now we’re releasing Version 13.2. We continue to have a huge pipeline of R&D, some short term, some medium term, some long term...
Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF...
31st Dec 2018
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Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL

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

31st Dec 2018
An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend...
1st Feb 2020
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Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine

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

1st Feb 2020
Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend Eleventy to use it.
Reasons to write design docs Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half...
2nd Sep 2024
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Reasons to write design docs

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

2nd Sep 2024
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half true, though, since my job is as much about people and communication as it is about technology. Probably more, actually. Writing is useful at all levels of software engineering. It's...
Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference! She's...
3rd Feb 2025
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Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation

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

3rd Feb 2025
Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference! She's an anthropologist by training, and I'm a software engineer. How'd we wind up there? The short version is I asked her what I thought was an interesting question, and she thought it...
What I'm up to - January 2023 ✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a...
1st Jan 2023
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What I'm up to - January 2023

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

1st Jan 2023
✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a couple of flights canceled by Southwest - Published "Why I built Postcard: A calmer alternative to s...
12th Dec 2017
7th Sep 2018
Overconfidence and future-proofing “Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable...
18th Mar 2023
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Overconfidence and future-proofing

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

18th Mar 2023
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable design decisions. Future-proofing only makes sense if you have some idea of what the future will look like and you understand what the tradeoffs are.
Leaving Delaware This post covers why companies are considering reincorporating from Delaware to Nevada & Texas
5th Feb 2025
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Leaving Delaware

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

5th Feb 2025
This post covers why companies are considering reincorporating from Delaware to Nevada & Texas
Vim Awesome: Talk at the San Francisco Vim meetup Video of a talk I gave introducing and explaining Vim Awesome.
16th Mar 2016
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Vim Awesome: Talk at the San Francisco Vim meetup

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

16th Mar 2016
Video of a talk I gave introducing and explaining Vim Awesome.
a perfect blog editor What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
11th May 2020
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a perfect blog editor

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

11th May 2020
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
We spend $45,000 on doing more weird every month "Do more weird" is an actual PostHog company value , and we have a discretionary $45k/mo budget...
5th Aug 2026
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We spend $45,000 on doing more weird every month

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

5th Aug 2026
"Do more weird" is an actual PostHog company value , and we have a discretionary $45k/mo budget that anyone can use to bring weird ideas to life…
Toasts are Bad UX Read the post here.
17th Jul 2024
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Toasts are Bad UX

from Max Schmitt [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jul 2024
Read the post here.
GitHub now has a setting to underline links A public beta was released for GitHub on Friday the 29th. It allows you to apply or remove an...
2nd Oct 2023
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GitHub now has a setting to underline links

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

2nd Oct 2023
A public beta was released for GitHub on Friday the 29th. It allows you to apply or remove an underline effect to links in body content. The link underlines are present in Issue and Pull Request comments, as well as other areas of the site. We are still identifying areas where...
On picking side-projects Food for thought on how to pick the right side projects and how to manage them effectively.
7th Mar 2024
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On picking side-projects

from Florian Bellmann | Be curious, explore and meditate. [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2024
Food for thought on how to pick the right side projects and how to manage them effectively.
Apologies and forgiveness The first in a series of posts about doing things the right way
5th Sep 2025
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Apologies and forgiveness

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

5th Sep 2025
The first in a series of posts about doing things the right way
Concatenating with strings.Builder Quickly in Golang The Go standard library makes concatenating strings easy. Concatenation is just a fancy word for...
4th May 2021
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Concatenating with strings.Builder Quickly in Golang

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

4th May 2021
The Go standard library makes concatenating strings easy. Concatenation is just a fancy word for adding strings together to make a larger string. For example, if we concatenate "hello", " " and "world" we’d get "hello world".
constantly divisionless random numbers Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless...
5th Mar 2025
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constantly divisionless random numbers

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

5th Mar 2025
Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless unbiased bounded random numbers. The idea was to reduce code bloat by eliminating lots of copies of the random number generator in the rarely-executed slow paths. However a simple...
Chelsea's Text Tone [Ukulele] A tiny ukulele track for Chelsea's iPhone text tone.
26th Aug 2012
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Chelsea's Text Tone [Ukulele]

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

26th Aug 2012
A tiny ukulele track for Chelsea's iPhone text tone.
1st Aug 2012
How I program with LLMs How I program with LLMs 2025-01-06 This document is a summary of my personal experiences using...
6th Jan 2025
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How I program with LLMs

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

6th Jan 2025
How I program with LLMs 2025-01-06 This document is a summary of my personal experiences using generative models while programming over the past year. It has not been a passive process. I have intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming to learn about them. The result...
Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better...
31st May 2010
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Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass

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

31st May 2010
You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better things to worry about and ways to avoid running into gorillas in the first place.
How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's New Era and The JAMstack Endgame > note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to...
2nd Aug 2023
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How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's New Era and The JAMstack Endgame

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

2nd Aug 2023
> note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts. The JSJam guys did a...
Curvature Beziers Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [ ...
15th Aug 2026
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Curvature Beziers

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

15th Aug 2026
Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [ {left: "$$", right: "$$", display: true}, {left: "$", right: "$", display: false}, ]}); }); Improving on a timeless recipe The bezier curve is a staple of CAD and...
All the user-facing states I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as...
29th Apr 2022
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All the user-facing states

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

29th Apr 2022
I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as augmented memory—I’ll update it as I encounter more user-facing states in the wild. What user-facing state is User-facing state is what someone experiences when they interact with...
Using HTML Validator Badges Again Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
5th Jul 2019
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Using HTML Validator Badges Again

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

5th Jul 2019
Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren't great (and still aren't perfect) but they represented a...
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?
What I'm up to - June 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in...
1st Jun 2026
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What I'm up to - June 2026

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

1st Jun 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in May - Went to Oaxaca for vacation, which was a culturally rich and walkable place. I enjoyed a lot of ...
What the Fork is Babel? Illustrated notes on how Babel works
1st Feb 2019
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What the Fork is Babel?

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

1st Feb 2019
Illustrated notes on how Babel works
How to Thought Lead (2026) I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic...
14th Mar 2026
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How to Thought Lead (2026)

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

14th Mar 2026
I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic parody and then slowly becoming sincere, and never published it, 1) because I don't know if I ever really nailed it / have a complete picture, 2) I was somewhat worried if I published...
Source Code for Life v0.1 Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
1st Apr 2018
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Source Code for Life v0.1

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

1st Apr 2018
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
Beaglebone Black Setup on Debian 8 Flash eMMC with latest Debian image Download Debian image...
1st Apr 2016
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Beaglebone Black Setup on Debian 8

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

1st Apr 2016
Flash eMMC with latest Debian image Download Debian image [whatever].img.xz http://beagleboard.org/latest-images unxz bone-debian-7.8-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-03-01-4gb.img.xz Insert microSD card and make sure that it is unmounted lsblk fdisk -l Copy the img to the microSD...
Globally install PHP command-line tools with Composer How to install CLI tools wiht Composer.
25th Apr 2014
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Globally install PHP command-line tools with Composer

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

25th Apr 2014
How to install CLI tools wiht Composer.
Japan Needs International Developers No one should be surprised that Japan, with its declining and aging population, is facing a severe...
11th Oct 2024
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Japan Needs International Developers

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Oct 2024
No one should be surprised that Japan, with its declining and aging population, is facing a severe labor shortage. A report by the Teikoku Databank states that across all industries, 52.6% of Japanese companies say they don’t have the workers they need. 260 bankruptcies in 2023...
Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to...
10th May 2019
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Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate

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

10th May 2019
This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors. I figured I did...
Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
9th Oct 2023
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Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023

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

9th Oct 2023
Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
28th Dec 2020
Getting localized month and day names in the browser JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip —...
25th Nov 2020
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Getting localized month and day names in the browser

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

25th Nov 2020
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app. I've...
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...
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...
Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet “OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios,...
2nd Sep 2022
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Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet

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

2nd Sep 2022
“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios, and now you want to talk about building a reliable network out of… USB drives?” Well, yes. In fact, I’ve already done it. What is sneakernet? Normally, “sneakernet” is a sort of...
27th Nov 2013
Slow Tech is Good Tech Avoid the shiny Avoid comparison Some examples Laravel Build tools Typescript and JS frameworks The...
29th May 2024
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Slow Tech is Good Tech

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

29th May 2024
Avoid the shiny Avoid comparison Some examples Laravel Build tools Typescript and JS frameworks The Web Platform What I keep up with This morning, I watched a video advertising a course aimed at developers. One of the first sentiments proclaimed is that of feeling left behind,...
17 Reasons NOT To Be A Manager Yesterday we had a super fun meetup here at Intercom in Dublin.  We split up into small discussion...
8th Sep 2019
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17 Reasons NOT To Be A Manager

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

8th Sep 2019
Yesterday we had a super fun meetup here at Intercom in Dublin.  We split up into small discussion groups and talked about things related to managing teams and being a senior individual contributor (IC), and going back and forth throughout your career. One interesting question...
Handmade Seattle 2023 A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
11th Jan 2024
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Handmade Seattle 2023

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

11th Jan 2024
A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with the following abstract: An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.” Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface...
Curried pumpkin soup Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the...
2nd Feb 2010
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Curried pumpkin soup

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

2nd Feb 2010
Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the first thing that comes to mind in winter is creamy squash soups. In the haze of moving, Mystery Hunt, and working on writing 6.042 problems this IAP, I somehow neglected making soup...
SIGCSE 2018 notes SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
22nd Feb 2018
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SIGCSE 2018 notes

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

22nd Feb 2018
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric design to...
Announcing glom: Restructured Data for Python This post introduces glom, Python's missing operator for nested objects and data. If you're an easy...
9th May 2018
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Announcing glom: Restructured Data for Python

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2018
This post introduces glom, Python's missing operator for nested objects and data. If you're an easy sell, full API docs and tutorial are already available at glom.readthedocs.io. met me at PyCon, this 5-minute talk. The Spectre of Structure In the Python world, there's a...
Thanks, 201X! Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade. Been a long ten...
2nd Dec 2019
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Thanks, 201X!

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2019
Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade. Been a long ten years, but it's flown past. This particular decade happens to coincide with my first years of full-time professional software engineering. The Quantity I can't possibly summarize it...
Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this...
8th Dec 2020
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Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error

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

8th Dec 2020
Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this was the second time I ran into the exact same issue, so it's time to write it down. (Hopefully, the third time I run into this, I have the presence of mind to look up my own...
Set Explicit Help Timeouts A simple way to normalize asking for help.
5th Apr 2021
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts

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

5th Apr 2021
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
I is for Intent Why your app turned into spaghetti "I do not like your software sir, There's a...
4th Feb 2024
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I is for Intent

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

4th Feb 2024
Why your app turned into spaghetti "I do not like your software sir, There's a certain kind of programmer. Let's call him Stanley. Stanley has been around for a while, and has his fair share of war stories. The common thread is that poorly conceived and specced...
The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics h2 span {color: #a5a5a5;} table.InCell { margin-left: -0.27rem; } #blog .post_content...
8th Mar 2022
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8th Mar 2022
h2 span {color: #a5a5a5;} table.InCell { margin-left: -0.27rem; } #blog .post_content .inline-table-of-contents { background-color: #ebf9f8; border: solid 1px #89cac7; } #blog .post_content .inline-table-of-contents div a { color: #783f19; } #blog...
Familiar Lines of Nostalgic Proportions A mixed tape was once a personal show of expression. An arrangement of songs purposefully set to...
1st Feb 2024
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Familiar Lines of Nostalgic Proportions

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2024
A mixed tape was once a personal show of expression. An arrangement of songs purposefully set to invoke an emotion. Happy, sad, psych-up workouts, breakups, love making… all depends. Spending time to record a deliberate mix of songs in order for someone else was devotion. When...
In defense of AI mandates When you need to execute a coordinated change on a tight timeline, a mandate is the best and most...
2nd Jul 2026
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In defense of AI mandates

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

2nd Jul 2026
When you need to execute a coordinated change on a tight timeline, a mandate is the best and most honest way to fund it.
Building my bullet journal layout with CSS Grid & Subgrid & Flexbox This is a post about how I built my bullet journal demo that you can find over here. My bullet...
29th Dec 2019
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Building my bullet journal layout with CSS Grid & Subgrid & Flexbox

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

29th Dec 2019
This is a post about how I built my bullet journal demo that you can find over here. My bullet journal layout is pretty simple compared to some of the more elaborate, colorful and playful layouts I’ve seen. I mainly use my bullet journal to track a few monthly goals, bills, my...
DEFCON 30 This summer I had the opportunity to attend DEFCON 30, a cybersecurity conference gathering around...
20th Nov 2022
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DEFCON 30

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Nov 2022
This summer I had the opportunity to attend DEFCON 30, a cybersecurity conference gathering around 27000 hackers in the fabulous city of Las Vegas, Nevada. With more than 30 villages and 3 main conference tracks, the event managed to cover pretty much every subject from malware...
Can Directories Rise Again? With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long...
21st May 2025
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Can Directories Rise Again?

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

21st May 2025
With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long forgotten directory. The post Can Directories Rise Again? appeared first on The History of the Web.
JavaScript’s Maps For Better Performance This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for...
1st Nov 2018
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JavaScript’s Maps For Better Performance

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

1st Nov 2018
This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for such a source, please check out MDN. In general, the Map data structure is useful when we want to retrieve/add/delete values through a set of unique keys. One of the...
Death of the Visceral Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane...
22nd Jan 2025
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Death of the Visceral

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

22nd Jan 2025
Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane sideways to fit, a missile on your tail and closing, hitting the turbo, feeling the g force, coming up on the end of the corridor, pulling back hard on the stick the second the corridor...
How to transfigure wireframes into HTML Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands...
1st Dec 2022
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How to transfigure wireframes into HTML

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2022
Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands over a wonderful web design in all its large-screen glory. Your mission now is to transform it into code to present a prototype as soon as possible, starting with nothing but an...
The UX of HTML by Vasilis van Gemert Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a...
1st Dec 2023
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The UX of HTML

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2023
by Vasilis van Gemert Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a font — a student asked: does it have to be semantic and shit? The whole class looked up, curious about the answer — please let it be no! I answered that no, it doesn’t have to be...
How coffee shops helped my startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Right now I’m...
4th Aug 2012
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How coffee shops helped my startup

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

4th Aug 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Right now I’m sat in a great coffee shop in Tel Aviv writing this blog post. It’s got a casual feel to it which is relaxing, yet there are people here with laptops hustling away. I come here
SemVer: The Tricky Parts Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood...
8th Nov 2021
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SemVer: The Tricky Parts

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Nov 2021
Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood semver, but that illusion disappeared once I started maintaining libraries myself. Semver has tricky edge cases where it's unclear what the new version number should be: Should you...
12th Oct 2025
How to use Sandpack for code demos Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every...
17th Dec 2021
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How to use Sandpack for code demos

from Chris Nicholas [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Dec 2021
Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every JavaScript framework.
Web Witch's Grimoire: April 2025 I really haven't done a review of my months since November. I've been deep in hibernation mode,...
3rd May 2025
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Web Witch's Grimoire: April 2025

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

3rd May 2025
I really haven't done a review of my months since November. I've been deep in hibernation mode, conserving energy for what will be a busy few months. I started to write a log about what happened in March, the first March that did not drag on this year, at least for me, but now...
The siren call of wrong-way dependencies Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and most costly design...
21st Sep 2024
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The siren call of wrong-way dependencies

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

21st Sep 2024
Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and most costly design mistakes one can make.
A guide to bookmarklets I'm a frequent user of bookmarklets. As I'm sharing some of them on my blog, I wrote this post to...
4th Nov 2024
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A guide to bookmarklets

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

4th Nov 2024
I'm a frequent user of bookmarklets. As I'm sharing some of them on my blog, I wrote this post to explain what bookmarklets are and how to use them. In short, a bookmarklet is a browser bookmark containing JavaScript code. Clicking the bookmark executes the script in the context...
Set Explicit Help Timeouts A simple way to normalize asking for help.
5th Apr 2021
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts

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

5th Apr 2021
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
Racy git magic Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement. And I think there is one known race: the...
30th Nov 2023
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Racy git magic

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

30th Nov 2023
Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement. And I think there is one known race: the index mtime itself is not race-free. – Linus Torvalds, Re:git bugs, 2008 A well-known race condition skulks through git’s plumbing. And I can demo it via a git magic trick 🪄1 $ tree...
The Boot.dev Beat. June 2025 We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI...
10th Jun 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2025

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

10th Jun 2025
We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI agents like Cursor and Claude Code work under the hood.
Baochip-1x: A Mostly-Open, 22nm SoC for High Assurance Applications One of my latest projects is the Baochip-1x, a mostly-open, full-custom silicon chip fabricated in...
10th Mar 2026
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Baochip-1x: A Mostly-Open, 22nm SoC for High Assurance Applications

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

10th Mar 2026
One of my latest projects is the Baochip-1x, a mostly-open, full-custom silicon chip fabricated in TSMC 22nm, targeted at high assurance applications. It’s a security chip, but far more open than any other security chip; it’s also a general purpose microcontroller that fills a...
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1st Sep 2017
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Embeddable subscription widget

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

1st Sep 2017
We're making it even easier to build up your subscriber base.
Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When...
4th May 2020
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Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography

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

4th May 2020
Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When a message is sent, particularly using an untrusted medium, data integrity provides us with confidence that the message wasn’t tampered with. For example, the SSL signature of...
Chickadee 0.5.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.5.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
8th Apr 2020
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Chickadee 0.5.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2020
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.5.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile that is built on top of SDL2 and OpenGL. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in...
Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform...
11th Dec 2022
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Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic

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

11th Dec 2022
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform colorspace in some computer vision code. OkLab from Björn Ottosson was a great candidate given how simple the implementation is. But there is a plot twist: I needed the code to be...
A Developer’s Guide to Japanese Resumes Job-hunting in Japan as a developer may require you to create an English resume, a Japanese resume,...
12th Nov 2025
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A Developer’s Guide to Japanese Resumes

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Nov 2025
Job-hunting in Japan as a developer may require you to create an English resume, a Japanese resume, or both. While the companies posting on TokyoDev expect an English-language resume, companies with a mainly Japanese workforce may have different requirements. There are two types...
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about...
9th Nov 2020
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Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?

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

9th Nov 2020
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It's a very good article overall, and I suggest...
SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a...
13th Oct 2019
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SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation

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

13th Oct 2019
I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a funny name. I had my fun playing with the concept but the conclusion I had to put into my thesis was: “SWInE is rather promising”. In academic language, this means “useless”....
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
18th Mar 2020
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)

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

18th Mar 2020
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
27th Jan 2022
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The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite

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

27th Jan 2022
Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any...
2nd Feb 2023
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Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech

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

2nd Feb 2023
In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any longer, womp womp) I've done a little bit of a lot…
I switched from GMail and nobody died Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as...
8th May 2025
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I switched from GMail and nobody died

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

8th May 2025
Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as authentication and sometimes as authorisation for certain actions. I’m not comfortable with Google having such power over me, especially given the fact that they practically don’t...
A Year at Igalia March 11th marked my one year anniversary at Igalia. It simultaneously feels like the blink of an...
17th Mar 2025
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A Year at Igalia

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

17th Mar 2025
March 11th marked my one year anniversary at Igalia. It simultaneously feels like the blink of an eye and also decade. I suspect that's just the way life goes. It has been a busy year of rebuilding my self-confidence in my career. Despite it being 2 years since relocating to...
State of Data Engineering 2025 Q1 AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks.  To me, this...
6th Feb 2025
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State of Data Engineering 2025 Q1

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

6th Feb 2025
AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks.  To me, this means a system in which a subset can allow AI models to take independent actions based on their environment, typically interacting with external APIs or interfaces.  The terminology...
No More Blue Fridays In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve...
21st Jul 2024
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No More Blue Fridays

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

21st Jul 2024
In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve kernel code. In the future, these updates will push eBPF code. Friday July 19th provided an unprecedented example of the inherent dangers of kernel programming, and has been...
OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big...
6th Jun 2023
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OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux

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

6th Jun 2023
Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost: leapfrogging from OpenGL 2.1 over OpenGL 3.0 up to OpenGL 3.1! Similarly, the OpenGL ES 2.0 support is bumping up to OpenGL ES 3.0. That means more playable games and more functioning...
Digital product studios I describe Contraption Company as a digital product studio. Many people ask what that means. "Is it...
28th Jan 2024
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Digital product studios

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

28th Jan 2024
I describe Contraption Company as a digital product studio. Many people ask what that means. "Is it a startup?" (not exactly). "Is it an agency?" (ideally, no). "Do you make apps to spin them out into new companies?" (no). I envision a digital product
Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples) Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature...
5th Jan 2023
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Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples)

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

5th Jan 2023
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature flag. Testing multiple variants of a new UX? Use…
22nd Sep 2018
Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief Greensburg I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close...
7th May 2007
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Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief

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

7th May 2007
Greensburg I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close to home (for me anyway) needs more attention than it's getting. My fear is that the Greensburg tornado will fade from the public mind just as quickly as it came. I would like to...
AGI, agents, and timelines AGI is coming—whether we’re ready or not. I’ve been convinced of this trajectory since GPT-3’s...
6th Feb 2025
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AGI, agents, and timelines

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

6th Feb 2025
AGI is coming—whether we’re ready or not. I’ve been convinced of this trajectory since GPT-3’s release, but recent developments have significantly accelerated my timelines. The first major shift was OpenAI’s breakthrough in test-time compute and its newly demonstrated scaling...
2024 Book Roundup My goal for 2024 was to read 30 books. I had set a stretch goal despite not meeting my 2023 goal. I...
5th Jan 2025
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2024 Book Roundup

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

5th Jan 2025
My goal for 2024 was to read 30 books. I had set a stretch goal despite not meeting my 2023 goal. I finished 31 books in 2024 and I am damn proud of that. I found myself prioritizing reading and having more time to do so. Perhaps it was finally abandoning Twitter, after realizing...
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...
Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project: start a new...
4th Nov 2024
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Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies

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

4th Nov 2024
When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project: start a new feature, or add a command line argument parser? We opted for the latter, because it had to happen eventually and it was more well bounded. It ended up having a lot of depth! We...
Staging is a trap @mipsytipsy Software staging clusters only grow. As production accrues more services, staging’s...
15th Sep 2022
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Staging is a trap

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

15th Sep 2022
@mipsytipsy Software staging clusters only grow. As production accrues more services, staging’s costs ramp up. And maintaining a single, massive, production-like staging may no longer be the right answer. But several, small staging clusters—each fit for their purpose—offers a...
Issues with object-oriented programming in Guile Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but really it is a multi-paradigm...
5th Oct 2022
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Issues with object-oriented programming in Guile

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Oct 2022
Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but really it is a multi-paradigm language, including object-oriented programming. My Scheme of choice for the past decade has been Guile. It comes with support for OOP via GOOPS: The Guile Object Oriented...
Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed) I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my playgrounds (nginx, dns,...
6th Aug 2024
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6th Aug 2024
I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my playgrounds (nginx, dns, memory, more DNS) are written in Go, but many of those projects are just a few hundred lines and I don’t come back to those codebases much. I thought I more or less understood the...
Tech Blog of the Week? Me? That's Cool. DUNDUNDaDUHH! (that's right it's a triumphant music sound. I can use onomatopoeia, I'm the tech blog...
1st Jun 2007
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Tech Blog of the Week? Me? That's Cool.

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

1st Jun 2007
DUNDUNDaDUHH! (that's right it's a triumphant music sound. I can use onomatopoeia, I'm the tech blog of the week!) As my five or six regular readers may already know, there exists a fantastic website called Daily Cup of Tech that I have featured on this website a few times (or...
The state of modern Front End Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry. About once every six...
14th May 2023
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The state of modern Front End

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

14th May 2023
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry. About once every six months another blogger bursts into HackerNews/Twitter trends, saying - hey, enough of that JavaScript bloat, let's all use modern HTML controls! There's <dialog> for modal dialogs,...
My Essential Tools for WordPress Development Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily...
25th Jun 2016
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My Essential Tools for WordPress Development

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

25th Jun 2016
Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily development-related; some have to do with productivity or just make life a little easier. That’s by design. Part of being a developer is learning to work and use your tools as...
Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you Originally posted on the Stack Overflow blog on June 10th, 2024 When I was 19 years old, I dropped...
10th Jun 2024
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Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you

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

10th Jun 2024
Originally posted on the Stack Overflow blog on June 10th, 2024 When I was 19 years old, I dropped out of college and moved to San Francisco. I had a job offer in hand to be a Unix sysadmin for Taos Consulting. However, before my first day of work I was lured away to a […]
Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
1st Jan 2023
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Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints

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

1st Jan 2023
How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
What is a product engineer (and why they're awesome) Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this...
1st Dec 2022
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What is a product engineer (and why they're awesome)

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

1st Dec 2022
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this need came the role of product engineer. They are a…
Getting better at the New York Times crossword I started doing crossword puzzles sometime in 2019. After learning the basics of American crossword...
15th Apr 2021
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Getting better at the New York Times crossword

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

15th Apr 2021
I started doing crossword puzzles sometime in 2019. After learning the basics of American crossword puzzles, the best way to improve is to solve daily. As a budding cruciverbalist you develop a few key skills. The NYTimes website has an excellent guide on the basics of solving....
ioctls from Rust Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
13th Feb 2025
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ioctls from Rust

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

13th Feb 2025
Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
Using snippets in sublime text to speed up your development How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your...
20th Feb 2018
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Using snippets in sublime text to speed up your development

from Seán Barry [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Feb 2018
How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your efficiency.
How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my...
2nd Oct 2024
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How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer

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

2nd Oct 2024
I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted). The office I worked in was a
How Long Does It Take To Learn JavaScript? (& How To Learn Fast) A good programming language is one that newcomers can learn fast. This is one of the reasons why...
5th Feb 2022
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How Long Does It Take To Learn JavaScript? (& How To Learn Fast)

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

5th Feb 2022
A good programming language is one that newcomers can learn fast. This is one of the reasons why JavaScript is so popular – it’s possible to learn Javascript quickly and with minimum fuss.
Text rendering and effects using GPU-computed distances Text rendering is cursed. Anyone who has worked on text will tell you the same; whether it's about...
1st Nov 2025
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Text rendering and effects using GPU-computed distances

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

1st Nov 2025
Text rendering is cursed. Anyone who has worked on text will tell you the same; whether it's about layout, bi-directional, shaping, Unicode, or the rendering itself, it's never a completely solved problem. In my personal case, I've been working on trying to render text in the...
2nd Jan 2026
Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip “Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus,...
19th Dec 2022
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Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip

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

19th Dec 2022
“Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus, it piqued my interest when an early-stage SE chip startup, Cramium (still in stealth mode), approached me to advise on open source strategy. This blog post explains my reasoning...
4 Years In 4 Years In What lies ahead ¶4 Years In I’ve been at Elvie 4 years already! I can’t quite believe...
13th Feb 2021
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4 Years In

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

13th Feb 2021
4 Years In What lies ahead ¶4 Years In I’ve been at Elvie 4 years already! I can’t quite believe how quickly the time has gone by or the amazing things we’ve accomplished as a team. 2020 was by far the hardest year, but in many ways the most rewarding and exciting so far because...
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
8th Jan 2019
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How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful

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

8th Jan 2019
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is...
27th Apr 2023
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eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools

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

27th Apr 2023
eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is and using them for security monitoring would be like driving your car into the ocean and expecting it to float. Observability tools are designed have the lowest overhead possible so...
Overkill Objects for Everyday Life I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair...
30th May 2021
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Overkill Objects for Everyday Life

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th May 2021
I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I'
Two simple changes that helped increase my happiness and improve my sleep * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key...
10th Oct 2013
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10th Oct 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key values at Buffer [http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03] are “Always choose positivity and happiness”, “Have a focus on self-improvement” and “Live smarter, not...
Cross-Browser JavaScript Scrollbar Detection I recently contributed a fix to the bootstrap framework that detects on-screen scrollbars to...
12th Jul 2014
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Cross-Browser JavaScript Scrollbar Detection

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

12th Jul 2014
I recently contributed a fix to the bootstrap framework that detects on-screen scrollbars to determine whether or not the body should be padded when a modal window is opened to prevent shifting of background contents. Detecting on-screen scrollbars turned out to be a bit more...
The Inevitability of Change Everything is the same and yet everything is different. That's how I feel sitting on the edge of the...
8th Aug 2024
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The Inevitability of Change

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

8th Aug 2024
Everything is the same and yet everything is different. That's how I feel sitting on the edge of the water in West Seattle. I've not been living here since January 2023. I've been back 5 or 6 times in the last year and a half and suddenly the buildings that were steel bones and...
Asus debian jessie install Reboot, hitting F2 over-and-over Turn off Fastboot and Secureboot in UEFI Download Non-free...
8th Jun 2015
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Asus debian jessie install

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

8th Jun 2015
Reboot, hitting F2 over-and-over Turn off Fastboot and Secureboot in UEFI Download Non-free firmware Linux Questions Answer firmware-iwlwifi download Extract firmware from deb ar xv firmware-iwlwifi.deb tar xvf data.tar.xz Copy to ext4 formatted sd-card mkfs.ext4...
Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you...
11th May 2026
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Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture

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

11th May 2026
I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you set an evolutionary algorithm on the task of producing a structure that is as efficient at its intended function as possible. Past that there’s no human input, the algorithm just...
Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP...
5th Jan 2024
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5th Jan 2024
I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around whether or not I am allowed to have or hire any dedicated engineering managers....
Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
5th Oct 2024
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Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh

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

5th Oct 2024
My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the...
26th Apr 2024
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Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD

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

26th Apr 2024
In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the ST7735s 1.44" LCD, which sports a resolution of 128x128 pixels, a D-pad, and 3 other buttons. I will cover the prerequisite work to make the port possible, dig into the GPIO and SPI...
Digging into git commit templates Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been...
21st May 2025
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Digging into git commit templates

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

21st May 2025
Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. – Eagleson’s Law After scouring git history, I found the correct config file, but someone removed it. Their full commit message read: Remove config. Don't bring...
Goodreads lost all of my reviews Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully...
28th Feb 2022
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Goodreads lost all of my reviews

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

28th Feb 2022
Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I've never encountered a company with such callous disregard for their...
Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going? How it started Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23 employees),...
1st May 2025
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Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going?

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

1st May 2025
How it started Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23 employees), and we knew that we needed many more people to execute on our audacious vision. While we had had success hiring in our personal networks, those networks now felt tapped; we needed...
A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured...
2nd Dec 2023
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A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed

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

2nd Dec 2023
For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been?
A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares...
8th Apr 2025
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A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs

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

8th Apr 2025
Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares the same concerns as software engineering—scalability, maintainability, and other “-ilities”—but its primary focus is on data. It’s a unique discipline because data is inherently...
Name that Ware, January 2024 The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara....
31st Jan 2024
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Name that Ware, January 2024

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

31st Jan 2024
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara. I actually have no idea what the original purpose was, so I’m curious to see if anyone can convince me as to what this thing did, presumably for many years and millions of times....
Statements Vs. Expressions One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of...
11th Jul 2022
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Statements Vs. Expressions

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

11th Jul 2022
One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of statements, and statements have slots for expressions. In this blog post, we'll dig into how these two structures work, and see how building an intuition about this can help us...
Navigating the unpredictability of everything We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it...
19th Mar 2023
66

Navigating the unpredictability of everything

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

19th Mar 2023
We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it means you need these techniques to navigate a volatile world.
Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website,...
7th Jul 2015
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Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy

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

7th Jul 2015
If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website, you'll see Registrant Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED Registrant Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC. Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411 Registrant City: PANAMA Registrant State/Province:...
27th Dec 2025
Programmable Notes Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
18th Mar 2022
1

Programmable Notes

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

18th Mar 2022
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
No more talking to politicians I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant...
1st Nov 2023
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No more talking to politicians

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

1st Nov 2023
I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant battle. Now I will no longer accept their calls. Unfortunately my home phone number is ruined. Between scams and politicians I never answer my phone unless I recognize the caller...
On being “currently based anywhere” Currently based anywhere. That’s what I landed on when I changed the copy on my homepage indicating...
11th Jun 2022
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On being “currently based anywhere”

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

11th Jun 2022
Currently based anywhere. That’s what I landed on when I changed the copy on my homepage indicating that I was based out of Atlanta. I…
Nobody Profits Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and...
18th Feb 2025
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Nobody Profits

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

18th Feb 2025
Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and grab. It ain’t no different than smashing a window at Tiffany’s and grabbing merchandise.” - Joe Biden, 46th president of the USA Except it isn’t and Joe Biden is a senile moron....
4th Jan 2018
Rearranging the File Browser menu for Insphex <![CDATA[Insphex adds the Hexdump item to the File Browser menu to view the hex dump of the selected...
1st Mar 2026
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Rearranging the File Browser menu for Insphex

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2026
<![CDATA[Insphex adds the Hexdump item to the File Browser menu to view the hex dump of the selected files. The initial implementation called the public API for adding commands at the top level of the menu. To later move the item to the See sumbenu that groups various file...
Stop Fascism: Vote Blue It might seem silly for a retired technical writer and obscure blogger to endorse a Presidential...
20th Oct 2024
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Stop Fascism: Vote Blue

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

20th Oct 2024
It might seem silly for a retired technical writer and obscure blogger to endorse a Presidential candidate. I am not vain enough to believe that my prestige (such as it is) has the power to influence people’s electoral choices. But I believe this election to be too important for...
Pink, Soft, Glittering Developers A collection of observations on the rise of soft, sparkly, baby pink aesthetics among developers
13th Mar 2021
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Pink, Soft, Glittering Developers

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

13th Mar 2021
A collection of observations on the rise of soft, sparkly, baby pink aesthetics among developers
Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
5th Apr 2025
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Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture

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

5th Apr 2025
Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
Alt-Numpad for Linux In Ubuntu the alt+numpad ACSII codes don’t work—this was a major stumbling block for me since I am...
26th Jul 2011
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Alt-Numpad for Linux

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

26th Jul 2011
In Ubuntu the alt+numpad ACSII codes don’t work—this was a major stumbling block for me since I am annoyingly picky about typography. After spending way too much time Googling I found that these steps work: Hold Ctrl+Shift+U Release the “U” key (while still holding...
Returning To Rails in 2026 I love a good side-project. Like most geeks, I have a tendency to go down rabbit holes when faced...
5th Mar 2026
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Returning To Rails in 2026

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

5th Mar 2026
I love a good side-project. Like most geeks, I have a tendency to go down rabbit holes when faced with problems - give me a minor inconvenience and I’ll happily spend weeks building something far more elaborate than the situation warrants. There’s joy in having a playground to...
The 16-inch MacBook Pro After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on...
13th Nov 2019
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The 16-inch MacBook Pro

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

13th Nov 2019
After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on today’s Accidental Tech Podcast! Two years ago, I wrote a wishlist to fix the MacBook Pro, and the 16-inch doesn’t actually deliver most of it. But time and technological progress...
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...
25th May 2025
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May 2025

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

25th May 2025
Analyzing Tesla AI Day 2022 I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been...
2nd Oct 2022
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Analyzing Tesla AI Day 2022

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

2nd Oct 2022
I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been interesting to me because their hardware limitations drive advances in their software. Relative to other players in the industry: Low-spec sensors require ML- and data-first...
Literate Vimrc Literate ~/.vimrc This blog post is my ~/.vimrc now. Hold on, let me explain. Why would anyone do a...
14th Jun 2017
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Literate Vimrc

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

14th Jun 2017
Literate ~/.vimrc This blog post is my ~/.vimrc now. Hold on, let me explain. Why would anyone do a thing like this? I have tons of comments in my ~/.vimrc file. I try to leave a lot of comments because everything in my Vim configuration is hard-won knowledge. My ~/.vimrc is...
Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The...
31st Dec 2016
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Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL

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

31st Dec 2016
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The Sultan's Riddle Once upon a time there was a Sultan who was looking for a vizier to help him rule his country. It became known to him that among the multitudes of his loyal subjects...
Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since -...
8th Nov 2021
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Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events

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

8th Nov 2021
A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since - Get Good at Events.
PowerShell Customization - Fonts, Prompts, and Autocompletion Step 1: Install Oh-My-Posh goto oh-my-posh windows installation page, or just execute the...
9th Aug 2024
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PowerShell Customization - Fonts, Prompts, and Autocompletion

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Aug 2024
Step 1: Install Oh-My-Posh goto oh-my-posh windows installation page, or just execute the following 1 winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh -s winget Step 2: Choose a Font Totally optional, but if you want to get a specific font follow this section. to install a supported...
Quitting the Rat Race I'm leaving a comfortable job in a big city because there's more to life than whatever this is.
16th Jan 2023
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Quitting the Rat Race

from Seán Barry [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jan 2023
I'm leaving a comfortable job in a big city because there's more to life than whatever this is.
A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value...
29th Apr 2024
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A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of

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

29th Apr 2024
An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value only depends on the four neighboring pixel values. The image becomes smooth, but sharp features remain sharp.
Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday | ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| Don't push to production...
1st May 2019
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies

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

1st May 2019
VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday | ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| Don't push to production |___________| (___/) || (⌾ㅅ⌾) || /   づ — Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly) April 12, 2019 So, that happened. I hadn’t seen anyone say something like this in quite a while.  I remember saying things like...
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...
Programming Portals Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple...
23rd Oct 2022
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Programming Portals

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

23rd Oct 2022
Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes
The 2018 Mac Mini Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my...
6th Nov 2018
63

The 2018 Mac Mini

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

6th Nov 2018
Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my family as our home-theater mixer, Plex server, ScanSnap server, Apple Photos backup, and Backblaze host for our NAS.1 Almost every port on the back is in use, and it runs 24/7,...
The imminent risk of vibe coding Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
30th Jan 2026
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The imminent risk of vibe coding

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

30th Jan 2026
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
3rd Dec 2020
1

The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines

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

3rd Dec 2020
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
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...
2014-06-13 articles.manugarg.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors.html
13th Jun 2014
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2014-06-13

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

13th Jun 2014
articles.manugarg.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors.html
Indie Web Stack of the Future You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a...
8th Jan 2023
62

Indie Web Stack of the Future

from Max Countryman [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jan 2023
You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a few things that make indie development different and we should design our stack around our unique goals. Let's explore an ideal web stack we can build the future on.
26th Feb 2021
Replicating Database Changes to a Message Queue is Tricky Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to...
13th Dec 2022
55

Replicating Database Changes to a Message Queue is Tricky

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Dec 2022
Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to do things when changes occur. For example, we might want to send email notifications if a bank balance drops below a threshold. This is a very common reason applications use...
Are Efficiency and Horizontal Scalability at odds? Sorry for missing the newsletter last week! I started writing on Monday as normal, and by Wednesday...
12th Feb 2025
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Are Efficiency and Horizontal Scalability at odds?

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

12th Feb 2025
Sorry for missing the newsletter last week! I started writing on Monday as normal, and by Wednesday the piece (about the hierarchy of controls ) was 2000 words and not close to done. So now it'll be a blog post sometime later this month. I also just released a new version of...
Power dynamics in web specifications My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we...
19th Apr 2024
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Power dynamics in web specifications

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2024
My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we struggled with as a working group was that we would specify how the technology should work, but the browser vendors' implementations weren't exactly what we intended, and web authors...
What I'm up to - March 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st Mar 2026
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What I'm up to - March 2026

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

1st Mar 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in February - Published Three-ring binder and A fresh coat of paint on Contraption Co. - Launching a proj...
9th Mar 2009
Engineering Manager Archetypes and Career Paths Cross-posted from leaddev.com Exploring seven common leadership scenarios. If you’re looking for a...
3rd Aug 2021
1

Engineering Manager Archetypes and Career Paths

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

3rd Aug 2021
Cross-posted from leaddev.com Exploring seven common leadership scenarios. If you’re looking for a very traditional breakdown of engineering manager archetypes – tech lead manager, team manager, director, and so forth – you can’t do better than Will Larson’s post, and I won’t...
Spirograph fun in Kidz Fun Art For a long time I’ve wanted to add Spirographs to my (awesome ) drawing app for kids, Kidz Fun Art,...
12th Jun 2026
1

Spirograph fun in Kidz Fun Art

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jun 2026
For a long time I’ve wanted to add Spirographs to my (awesome ) drawing app for kids, Kidz Fun Art, and today it’s ready! There was quite a bit of fun mathematics in getting it to feel natural and work with all sizes of circles, but it seems to have worked out very...
Bring Back Ops Pride "Operations" is not a dirty word, a synonym for toil, or a title for people who can't write code....
19th Jan 2026
1

Bring Back Ops Pride

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

19th Jan 2026
"Operations" is not a dirty word, a synonym for toil, or a title for people who can't write code. May those who shit on ops get the operational outcomes they deserve.
I gave a talk about compiling to WebAssembly in the browser Video of my TSConf 2021 talk entitled "Faster, Safer: Compiling Untrusted Code to WebAssembly in the...
18th Nov 2021
1

I gave a talk about compiling to WebAssembly in the browser

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

18th Nov 2021
Video of my TSConf 2021 talk entitled "Faster, Safer: Compiling Untrusted Code to WebAssembly in the Browser".
Beware the cloud of hype We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of...
4th Jun 2024
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Beware the cloud of hype

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

4th Jun 2024
We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web. The post Beware the cloud of hype appeared first on The History of the Web.
O, Sunlight! “O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in...
23rd Dec 2020
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O, Sunlight!

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

23rd Dec 2020
“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in this world, much hope, much life. All we need to do is pause, breathe, and take a moment to see it. It might be as simple as the gift of sunlight. I hope you all have … Continue...
Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s...
2nd May 2024
71

Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales

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

2nd May 2024
One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s continuity. I call it a conceit, but I do mostly agree with it: I’ve felt literally sick after hearing about some peer’s unexpected departure, but I’m continually amazed at how resilient...
Is Computer Science Really that Hard? Yes, computer science is hard, but you already know that. You don’t want to know if computer science...
5th Apr 2023
1

Is Computer Science Really that Hard?

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

5th Apr 2023
Yes, computer science is hard, but you already know that. You don’t want to know if computer science is hard. You want to know if it’s too hard. You want to know if having to learn computer science is going to be a real obstacle in your way to achieving your goal.
Advanced Vitest Patterns (workshop) Learn advanced Vitest patterns—custom fixtures, matchers, and performance tuning—to craft faster,...
6th Aug 2025
24

Advanced Vitest Patterns (workshop)

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

6th Aug 2025
Learn advanced Vitest patterns—custom fixtures, matchers, and performance tuning—to craft faster, more effective test experiences.
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown...
6th Jul 2022
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch

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

6th Jul 2022
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can’t help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won’t go...
Fighting subscription fatigue with vibe-coding Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own...
16th Aug 2025
1

Fighting subscription fatigue with vibe-coding

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Aug 2025
Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own workout app instead of paying another SaaS. Two weeks ago, I decided to get serious about my workouts again and start logging them. I looked for an existing solution that has the...
Iinkomo “I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing...
30th Sep 2023
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Iinkomo

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

30th Sep 2023
“I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing the last bit of her belongings into her bags, rushed by her anger and irritation. “I told you; it will just be for a few days. My grandfather is here for a medical procedure, and...
Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience. In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a...
6th Oct 2024
97

Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience.

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

6th Oct 2024
In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a company’s developer experience. To support that exploration, I’ve developed a system model of the developing software at the company. In this chapter, we’ll work through: Summary results...
Postgres large JSON value query performance Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and...
1st Feb 2022
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Postgres large JSON value query performance

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2022
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 kiB, due to how...
Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast - 25% of Our Time Refactoring My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and...
1st Sep 2020
1

Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast - 25% of Our Time Refactoring

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

1st Sep 2020
My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and more time refactoring our code and tests. As a result, and perhaps somewhat counterintuitively, we’ve noticed a significant increase in our throughput of features and bug fixes.
How "new type" helps avoid production outages My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author...
9th Mar 2024
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How "new type" helps avoid production outages

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

9th Mar 2024
My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author briefly touches upon the “new type” idiom, its typical implementation in Rust, and then proceeds to propose a better alternative. But the question arises: why should you care?
10 lessons from my startup journey so far * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s almost...
19th Dec 2011
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10 lessons from my startup journey so far

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

19th Dec 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s almost exactly a year since I started documenting my startup lessons learned through this blog, and since my first post last November, I’ve blogged 26 times. I’ve been lucky enough to have...
1st May 2013
Trolley Problems as a Service Consider: It’s not getting any simpler to live in this world, is it?  💔 Ethical problems are hard. ...
30th May 2020
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Trolley Problems as a Service

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

30th May 2020
Consider: It’s not getting any simpler to live in this world, is it?  💔 Ethical problems are hard.  Even the ones that seem straightforward on the face of them get stickier the closer you look at them.  There are more stakeholders, more caveats, more cautionary tales, more...
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...
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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