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Cory's amazing dot paper In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in...
3rd Jun 2019
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Cory's amazing dot paper

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

3rd Jun 2019
In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in my corner holding this old fashioned pencil and a stack of dot paper. Sorry, but for me, these primitive tools do the same thing and I find them easier to use. I don't know. I guess...
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Progressions Composing sound-generating tools
12th May 2026
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Progressions

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

12th May 2026
Composing sound-generating tools
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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…
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and...
22nd Nov 2018
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid

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

22nd Nov 2018
Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
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You can own more than one type of computer! I probably wouldn't have done a deep dive on Apple alternatives without the announcement that they...
2nd Mar 2024
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You can own more than one type of computer!

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2024
I probably wouldn't have done a deep dive on Apple alternatives without the announcement that they were killing progressive web apps (PWAs) on the iPhone in the EU. Most people don't switch operating systems willy-nilly, and for good reason: They're different! And different is...
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024 Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The...
5th Nov 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024

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

5th Nov 2024
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The Boots’ aura XP boost even hit 2x for a while there.
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SumatraPDF new features: March 18, 2026 New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: DDE commands accept arguments Commands sent...
3rd Oct 2026
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SumatraPDF new features: March 18, 2026

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Oct 2026
New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: DDE commands accept arguments Commands sent via DDE can take arguments, the same as in custom shortcuts (#5383). Loading message in tab While a document loads, its tab shows a “loading” message instead of the home...
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A clever way to style the <mark> element I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in...
1st Feb 2019
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A clever way to style the <mark> element

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

1st Feb 2019
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials: Most textual highlights use a boring rectangle background color, but this stands out and looks gorgeous. I was really hoping they were using a simple <mark>...
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7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is...
4th Jan 2022
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7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer

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

4th Jan 2022
If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is focusing on Python best practices. It’s really important that your code is readable, testable, and maintainable. From picking good variable names, refactoring code that gets repeated...
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Revisiting FOUCE It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I...
23rd Dec 2024
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Revisiting FOUCE

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

23rd Dec 2024
It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I think is worth a post. This approach is similar to hiding the page content and then fading it in, but I've noticed it's far less distracting without the fade. It also adds a two...
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How to change custom domain on Substack Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
17th Mar 2023
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How to change custom domain on Substack

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

17th Mar 2023
Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
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Screen Power Saving in the Linux Console I just made up a Debian trixie setup that has no need for a GUI. In fact, I rarely use the text...
24th Feb 2026
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Screen Power Saving in the Linux Console

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

24th Feb 2026
I just made up a Debian trixie setup that has no need for a GUI. In fact, I rarely use the text console either. However, because the machine is dual boot and also serves another purpose, it’s connected to my main monitor and KVM switch. The monitor has three inputs, and when...
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Intervention ≠ good Michel de Montaigne, in his ‘Essays,’ recounts the story of a friend who fell sick. Despite...
3rd Feb 2024
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Intervention ≠ good

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

3rd Feb 2024
Michel de Montaigne, in his ‘Essays,’ recounts the story of a friend who fell sick. Despite consulting doctors and trying different treatments, nothing worked. Resigned to his fate, the friend finally gave up all treatments and stopped eating. Surprisingly, this led to an...
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Naked Emperors in Tech Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
6th Nov 2020
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Naked Emperors in Tech

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

6th Nov 2020
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
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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,...
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On Variance and Extensibility Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very...
28th Aug 2021
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On Variance and Extensibility

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

28th Aug 2021
Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very poorly understood in the software industry. This might seem strange to say, as you are reading this in a web browser, on an operating system, desktop or mobile. They are by all...
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How one line of code caused a $60 million loss 60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were...
13th Nov 2023
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How one line of code caused a $60 million loss

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

13th Nov 2023
60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were delayed
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Digital decluttering I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom. I read novel-length stories about...
13th Sep 2024
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Digital decluttering

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Sep 2024
I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom. I read novel-length stories about Doctor Who characters; I swooned over fan art of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries; I pored over in-depth analyses of each episode of Carmilla. Most of that is gone now. Links rot quickly,...
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Enterprise Software with Python When I first published 10 Myths of Enterprise Python on the PayPal Engineering blog, there were a...
22nd Mar 2016
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Enterprise Software with Python

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Mar 2016
When I first published 10 Myths of Enterprise Python on the PayPal Engineering blog, there were a lot of reactions. Some I expected: Surprise at Python in the enterprise space. Relief at more attestation of Python's use in the enterprise. And, as with all the best, a few...
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Lost confidence RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without...
21st Jun 2026
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Lost confidence

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

21st Jun 2026
RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without pretending to know the unknowable.
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Add captions to your images! Add captions to your images!
5th Sep 2023
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Add captions to your images!

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

5th Sep 2023
Add captions to your images!
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Treats from git's contrib tools🍭 .title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here,...
1st Jan 2024
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Treats from git's contrib tools🍭

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

1st Jan 2024
.title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones Junio C Hamano, git/contrib/README Git bundles handy tools along with its source repo. They live in a directory named contrib—short for contributed...
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Super Apps vs WhatsApp Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
9th Nov 2022
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Super Apps vs WhatsApp

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

9th Nov 2022
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
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How good is Claude, really? At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant. So much has happened in the...
4th Mar 2026
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How good is Claude, really?

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2026
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant. So much has happened in the time I was busy carving wooden spoons, that I felt it simpler to just ignore the hype. One morning, in this seemingly never ending winter, a friend told me excitedly how his employer...
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Implementation-First GraphQL Defining a meaningful distinction within code-first GraphQL server libraries.
17th Apr 2023
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Implementation-First GraphQL

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

17th Apr 2023
Defining a meaningful distinction within code-first GraphQL server libraries.
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Hello world “Start a blog” has been on my todo list for so long, it’s going to leave a gaping void in my life...
27th Dec 2015
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Hello world

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

27th Dec 2015
“Start a blog” has been on my todo list for so long, it’s going to leave a gaping void in my life when I check it off. There are some things I have been wanting to talk about for a while now, in a way that’s less ephemeral than twitter. Like how the tech industry […]
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Questionable Advice: Premature Senior Followup Q’s Some interesting followup questions arose from my recent post on the trap of the premature senior: I...
12th Feb 2021
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Questionable Advice: Premature Senior Followup Q’s

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

12th Feb 2021
Some interesting followup questions arose from my recent post on the trap of the premature senior: I found your blog (from Hacker News, I think) and your “Questionable Advice: The Trap of the Premature Senior” spoke to me, but I was wondering, do you have any followup advice on...
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Folders are dead, long live folders Folders, in the digital sense, began life as an ingenious skeuomorphic metaphor. A digital stand-in...
3rd Nov 2025
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Folders are dead, long live folders

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

3rd Nov 2025
Folders, in the digital sense, began life as an ingenious skeuomorphic metaphor. A digital stand-in for physical folders and filing cabinets pioneered by Xerox and first seen in their Alto machine. The metaphor helped early computer users map the new digital world onto something...
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Oct 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
2nd Nov 2019
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Oct 2019 Recap

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

2nd Nov 2019
Hello mailing list friends!
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Mainlining Nostalgia: Making the Winamp Skin Museum Thoughts on what I think made the Winamp Skin Museum successful.
23rd Sep 2020
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Mainlining Nostalgia: Making the Winamp Skin Museum

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

23rd Sep 2020
Thoughts on what I think made the Winamp Skin Museum successful.
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How to Reverse Interview Investors I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it...
2nd Feb 2023
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How to Reverse Interview Investors

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

2nd Feb 2023
I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since it is the stuff that is outside the usual SERP riffraff.
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Buyers define marketplaces A marketplace business connects buyers and sellers in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Some of...
7th Jun 2020
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Buyers define marketplaces

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

7th Jun 2020
A marketplace business connects buyers and sellers in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Some of today's biggest companies, such as Amazon, Uber, and Airbnb, are marketplaces. Yes, these companies cha...
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Three attempts at making payments secure In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and...
16th Jul 2025
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Three attempts at making payments secure

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

16th Jul 2025
In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and user accessibility. They are hardly known today. The post Three attempts at making payments secure appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Will AI destroy B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
7th Dec 2024
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Will AI destroy B2B SaaS?

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

7th Dec 2024
TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever. The discovery problem. ...
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Intentional Creation Reliably tap into your creativity with the 4 Cs: Consume, critique, curate, create. This is one of...
4th Jan 2023
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Intentional Creation

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2023
Reliably tap into your creativity with the 4 Cs: Consume, critique, curate, create. This is one of my oldest ideas, finally published on the GitHub ReadME Project blog, along with a profile, in June 2022. For more like this, follow me on Twitter or Mastodon. (You can also read it...
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Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and...
18th Mar 2010
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Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer

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

18th Mar 2010
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) don't always download properly in Internet Explorer. In fact, IE tends to see them as ZIP files and forces their extension to change to .zip when you select download. This...
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What I'm up to - October 2022 ✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time...
1st Oct 2022
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What I'm up to - October 2022

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

1st Oct 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time 🐻 - Shipped an archive page, social sharing improvements, and a showcase of customer websites for P...
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All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?) My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
17th Jan 2024
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All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?)

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

17th Jan 2024
My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
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Focus For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013, in...
14th Sep 2022
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Focus

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

14th Sep 2022
For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013, in JavaScript. It’s the first time in a while I’ve made a project just for kicks. If you look at the number of GitHub repositories I’ve committed to since 2013, the number is decreasing. Same...
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Sharing a project I built - Postcard Over the last two years I've quit Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I replaced social media with...
19th May 2022
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Sharing a project I built - Postcard

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

19th May 2022
Over the last two years I've quit Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I replaced social media with newsletters and blogs as the ways I stay in touch. Not many people have blogs - so I built a bot to le...
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Advent of Code 2025
27th Dec 2025
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Advent of Code 2025

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

27th Dec 2025
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What Are Software Developers Called In Japan? The “Dev” in TokyoDev stands for “developers.” Our founder, Paul McMahon, has always called himself...
1st Dec 2025
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What Are Software Developers Called In Japan?

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2025
The “Dev” in TokyoDev stands for “developers.” Our founder, Paul McMahon, has always called himself a developer because he’s from Canada, where only licensed professionals call themselves engineers. Yet the job title Software Developer (ソフトウェア開発者) is only rarely used in...
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The Cloud Computer Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first commercial cloud computer —...
26th Oct 2023
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The Cloud Computer

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

26th Oct 2023
Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first commercial cloud computer — along with our $44M Series A financing. From the outset at Oxide, and as I outlined in my 2020 Stanford talk, we have had three core beliefs as a company: Cloud computing is the...
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Crypto: the good, the bad and the ugly
6th Jan 2022
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Crypto: the good, the bad and the ugly

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

6th Jan 2022
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Repos that always pass their tests Losing faith in your build hobbles a software project. Continual test failures create alarm...
17th Feb 2022
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Repos that always pass their tests

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

17th Feb 2022
Losing faith in your build hobbles a software project. Continual test failures create alarm fatigue—people habituate to ignoring test results. Ignoring your tests creates an apathy spiral: more breakage, more failure, more apathy, resulting in decreased velocity. Fortunately,...
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Understanding Bazel remote caching A deep dive into the Action Cache, the CAS, and the security issues that arise from using Bazel with...
5th Sep 2025
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Understanding Bazel remote caching

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

5th Sep 2025
A deep dive into the Action Cache, the CAS, and the security issues that arise from using Bazel with a remote cache but without remote execution
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The agent principal-agent problem The agent principal-agent problem 2026-05-07 Code review is broken. The industry-established code...
7th May 2026
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The agent principal-agent problem

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

7th May 2026
The agent principal-agent problem 2026-05-07 Code review is broken. The industry-established code review process, review-then-commit, was a straightforward mechanism that allowed a relatively low-trust group of engineers to collaborate. It appears to have been initially developed...
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I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It In 2020, I built my first side project. I scratched my own itch, then started selling it, and since...
19th Aug 2024
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I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It

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

19th Aug 2024
In 2020, I built my first side project. I scratched my own itch, then started selling it, and since then, the project has earned me over $15,000. But a few months after releasing it, I was so tired of the maintenance that I wanted to shut it down. Here is a story about my short...
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What I'm up to - January 2026 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jan 2026
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What I'm up to - January 2026

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

1st Jan 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Visited Boulder - Launched a print edition of Contraption Company, which was a fun ...
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The S&P 500 is largely a historical artifact I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t...
2nd Apr 2024
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The S&P 500 is largely a historical artifact

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

2nd Apr 2024
I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t totally wrong, which is why this post is short. But, if you have the goal of just “investing in the market,” there’s a better option for doing that: a total market index. For...
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Overcast 4.2: The privacy update Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas: Anonymous sync by default Overcast...
27th Apr 2018
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Overcast 4.2: The privacy update

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

27th Apr 2018
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas: Anonymous sync by default Overcast has offered anonymous sync accounts since 2014. They’re fully functional, but they lack email addresses or passwords, so they can’t log into the website. A login token is stored in...
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Company Values: A Resentful Odyssey I have a very cynical reaction to the word “values”, especially in the context of corporate...
6th Feb 2018
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Company Values: A Resentful Odyssey

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

6th Feb 2018
I have a very cynical reaction to the word “values”, especially in the context of corporate entities. At best it’s a disingenuous marketing campaign, usually it’s more like a red blaring light shining on their degenerate hypocrisies and weakest aspirations. But we’ve been doing a...
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Holding Space for Wicked (Part One)
8th Dec 2024
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Holding Space for Wicked (Part One)

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

8th Dec 2024
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Annual Review 2025 As was the case in 2023, I’m back in Yunnan writing the annual review. This time sitting in Matchbox...
2nd Jan 2026
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Annual Review 2025

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

2nd Jan 2026
As was the case in 2023, I’m back in Yunnan writing the annual review. This time sitting in Matchbox coffee shop in Shaxi, the sky is pure blue and the farmers fields below are a dusty yellow. My fingers are freezing as I type but the pain is negated by the joy of wearing a...
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Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis. A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy...
21st Oct 2023
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Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis.

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

21st Oct 2023
A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis, which I gave at QCon last week. They’ll have the conference video up in a few weeks, but I also decided to do a recording of the final version (albeit a few weeks after the talk, so...
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What I'm up to - December 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2025
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What I'm up to - December 2025

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

1st Dec 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Just got back from a holiday in Tokyo and Hakone. I explored Ametora, noodles (tsuk...
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What's in, what's out, how it tells your story, and failing to parallel Hamilton's subversive... Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an...
11th Aug 2016
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What's in, what's out, how it tells your story, and failing to parallel Hamilton's subversive structure

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

11th Aug 2016
Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an embarrassingly big grin - after all, I had just experienced Hamilton. Like many others, I'd listened to the soundtrack many times before even acquiring tickets to the musical, and I'd...
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Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first...
9th Mar 2020
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Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors

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

9th Mar 2020
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky! Let me just use try/catch!” This criticism is well-meaning but misguided.
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Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first...
28th Apr 2023
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Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Apr 2023
Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first Rails Girls event in Nagasaki - as both an attendee and a speaker. It was a great experience where I was able to learn more about Rails, meet new people, make friends, practise...
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How To Podcast Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years....
7th Dec 2025
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How To Podcast

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

7th Dec 2025
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years. Here's some of them. The two outlier podcasts of our time are Dwarkesh and TBPN, and I will explain my mental model of them to the end - the following advice is what I strongly...
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What's next As of July 31st, my work contract with Rapid officially ended and that chapter of my life is...
2nd Aug 2023
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What's next

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

2nd Aug 2023
As of July 31st, my work contract with Rapid officially ended and that chapter of my life is closed. It was chaotic and tumultuous. But it was also fun and I learned loads about myself, what I'm capable of achieving, and perhaps most importantly what matters to me when it comes...
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Strategic choices: When both options are good Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the...
22nd Feb 2026
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Strategic choices: When both options are good

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

22nd Feb 2026
Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the painful ones you don't like.
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What I'm up to - October 2026 Hello from 10 kilometers over somewhere in the Midwest, as I sit in a tiny airplane seat and...
1st Oct 2026
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What I'm up to - October 2026

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

1st Oct 2026
Hello from 10 kilometers over somewhere in the Midwest, as I sit in a tiny airplane seat and appreciate the privacy screen on my laptop. I've been writing a monthly newsletter here about what I am up to for the last four years.
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Did you know AI is answering our community questions? AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that...
3rd Oct 2024
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Did you know AI is answering our community questions?

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

3rd Oct 2024
AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that try to replace a human in a product support context…
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Focusing on Focus Styles
29th Mar 2018
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Focusing on Focus Styles

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

29th Mar 2018
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A eulogy for my 20s
24th Jan 2016
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A eulogy for my 20s

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

24th Jan 2016
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Good advice on JSX conditionals Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to...
17th Jan 2022
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Good advice on JSX conditionals

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

17th Jan 2022
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to have a dedicated conditional syntax, like ng-if="condition", relying on JS boolean operators instead: condition && <JSX /> renders <JSX /> iff condition is truthy, condition ?...
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Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or...
6th Nov 2023
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Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature

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

6th Nov 2023
Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or this one: "We don't need to make it accessible since we don't have any blind users 1 ." It belies an attitude that's all too common in the software industry: That accessibility...
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Pantone, Color, and What I Wish I Had Known Sooner as a Designer One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a...
1st Apr 2015
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Pantone, Color, and What I Wish I Had Known Sooner as a Designer

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

1st Apr 2015
One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a professional branding agency was how to properly handle color output. So I decided to write this post in the hope of saving you some from some of the pitfalls that I failed to avoid.
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The Death of Curating, the Rise of Curation I've been trying to make an effort to more intentionally pick something to watch when the weekend...
18th Aug 2025
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The Death of Curating, the Rise of Curation

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

18th Aug 2025
I've been trying to make an effort to more intentionally pick something to watch when the weekend rolls around. While I've enjoyed the Grey's Anatomy binge I started during this pregnancy, it feels like a work week ritual -- something to put on in the background or pay half...
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Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs). Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the...
3rd Sep 2023
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Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs).

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

3rd Sep 2023
Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the individuals top 3 strengths, and top 3 weaknesses, and share the feedback with them directly in person. There was a prolonged fight against even documenting the feedback, which was viewed...
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Headless React Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things -...
5th Jul 2021
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Headless React

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

5th Jul 2021
Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things - Memoization, Data Flow and reconciliation Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU Live It is actually pretty easy to build a mediocre headless React today, i.e. an...
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Naming Variables the Right Way I’ve noticed that bugs introduced into an existing code base are often due to poor variable naming...
1st Apr 2021
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Naming Variables the Right Way

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

1st Apr 2021
I’ve noticed that bugs introduced into an existing code base are often due to poor variable naming more than one might suspect. For example, a developer uses a rateLimit variable expecting it to be denominated in seconds while it represents minutes, resulting in a 6x slower...
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2023 The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the...
31st May 2023
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2023

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

31st May 2023
The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the month without being guessed, but congrats to cpresser for figuring it out in the last week! email me for your prize. Here’s some more context images of the ware. The colored filter...
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The optics of pair programming If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with...
17th May 2022
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The optics of pair programming

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

17th May 2022
If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with another person to work on a problem. You’ll often hear it in development contexts, but I've also encountered it with design. In the Before Times, we paired by walking over to a...
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How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code) I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI...
23rd Dec 2025
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How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code)

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

23rd Dec 2025
I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI influencer "built 15 apps in a weekend" crowd, but Claude Code just did something wild for me. Had it help us rip out our entire search engine - we're talking millions and millions of...
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hybrid quota-linear rate limiter A while back I wrote about the linear rate limit algorithms leaky bucket and GCRA. Since then I have...
13th Jan 2026
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hybrid quota-linear rate limiter

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

13th Jan 2026
A while back I wrote about the linear rate limit algorithms leaky bucket and GCRA. Since then I have been vexed by how common it is to implement rate limiting using complicated and wasteful algorithms (for example). But linear (and exponential) rate limiters have a...
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Rituals for Engineering Teams Last weekend I happened to pick up a book called “Rituals For Work: 50 Ways To Create Engagement,...
15th Aug 2022
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Rituals for Engineering Teams

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

15th Aug 2022
Last weekend I happened to pick up a book called “Rituals For Work: 50 Ways To Create Engagement, Shared Purpose, And A Culture That Can Adapt To Change.” It’s a super quick read, more comic book than textbook, but I liked it. It got me thinking about the many rituals I have...
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Efficiently updating implicit in-order forests
3rd Jul 2023
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Efficiently updating implicit in-order forests

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

3rd Jul 2023
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Moving to Node.js The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of...
6th Feb 2017
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Moving to Node.js

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

6th Feb 2017
The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of software that I'm very proud of, but I decided to move the project to Node.js for a few important reasons. This is by no means a knock on PHP, which will always have a special...
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Reverse engineering a day’s worth of websites Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been a source of entertainment and knowledge for me....
30th Jul 2024
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Reverse engineering a day’s worth of websites

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

30th Jul 2024
Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been a source of entertainment and knowledge for me. I’ll poke around in the Chrome DevTools and figure out the basics of how popular websites work. Sure, it’s common to compress JavaScript and other resources, and the HTML source of...
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The problem with US healthcare is not capitalism Among the world's rich countries, Americans are the most likely to say their healthcare system needs...
24th May 2026
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The problem with US healthcare is not capitalism

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

24th May 2026
Among the world's rich countries, Americans are the most likely to say their healthcare system needs fundamental change. They are right. They are also wrong about why. The standard diagnosis runs roughly: too much capitalism, too much profit, too many private companies, too...
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Have a single definition of “now” I’ve been doing a bunch of datetime debugging recently, and this function has been an amazing...
4th Jun 2023
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Have a single definition of “now”

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2023
I’ve been doing a bunch of datetime debugging recently, and this function has been an amazing help: function today(): Date { return new Date(); } It’s not very sophisticated – it just returns the current time – but we use it everywhere we need to get the current time. (You...
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Bright Barley Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
22nd Apr 2022
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Bright Barley

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

22nd Apr 2022
Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
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Terroir Terroir Longmont Had an amazing meal tonight at Terroir in Longmont. Pictured is the most amazing...
14th Aug 2009
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Terroir

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

14th Aug 2009
Terroir Longmont Had an amazing meal tonight at Terroir in Longmont. Pictured is the most amazing thing you will never taste. Booya! I recovered this article from my old blog via the Internet Archive. If you found this article useful or entertaining (or even if you didn’t)...
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11th Nov 2018
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from Civic Hax [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Nov 2018
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal...
19th May 2021
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design

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

19th May 2021
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol' Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
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On Jakob Nielsen, AI hype, and accessibility A few years ago I made a New Year’s Eve resolution to stop overthinking assholes. I could...
5th Mar 2024
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On Jakob Nielsen, AI hype, and accessibility

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

5th Mar 2024
A few years ago I made a New Year’s Eve resolution to stop overthinking assholes. I could delicately, patiently, and painstakingly debunk the gigantic, misplaced swing of a man who is burning others' lived experience as fuel to propel his increasingly irrelevant career. I could...
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What I'm up to - July 2023 ✨ What I've been up to We finished moving back to NYC last month. I made a quick stopover to...
1st Jul 2023
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What I'm up to - July 2023

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

1st Jul 2023
✨ What I've been up to We finished moving back to NYC last month. I made a quick stopover to Canada for Tailwind Connect, where I met some interesting people and learned some new CSS techniques....
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An API for my Christmas tree
1st Dec 2017
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An API for my Christmas tree

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

1st Dec 2017
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[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This...
14th Aug 2020
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[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym

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

14th Aug 2020
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This guide walks you through these concepts one by one.
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The complex simplicity of my static websites It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
8th Aug 2023
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The complex simplicity of my static websites

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Aug 2023
It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions. I had no idea what that...
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Inspiring high school students with HTML and CSS Nearly a year ago I reached out to my high school across the state about coming in and giving a talk...
17th Feb 2020
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Inspiring high school students with HTML and CSS

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

17th Feb 2020
Nearly a year ago I reached out to my high school across the state about coming in and giving a talk about careers in tech. Due to conflicting schedules I had to reschedule a few times and after a few crazy months of travel to end my 2019, I finally got the trip on the calendar...
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Navigation updates You asked, and we listened. We've updated the navigation to be more usable.
17th Oct 2020
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Navigation updates

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

17th Oct 2020
You asked, and we listened. We've updated the navigation to be more usable.
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Close Access Denial I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for...
1st Oct 2023
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Close Access Denial

from Lennart Koopmann (KJ5KRF) [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2023
I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for what its WiFi functionality does. The fact that it looks at not only WiFi but also Ethernet data does not help with that problem. If I have a minute to explain it, it’s no problem...
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It’s the future — you can stop using JPEGs An overview of some compelling alternatives.
18th Jan 2023
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It’s the future — you can stop using JPEGs

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

18th Jan 2023
An overview of some compelling alternatives.
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Embeddable subscription widget We're making it even easier to build up your subscriber base.
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.
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Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains...
5th Oct 2016
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Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship

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

5th Oct 2016
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains home: I came across this Good Guy Boss meme on Facebook yesterday: I will respect you regardless of who you support in this election. I don't unfriend people due to political views....
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What you can do in a decade I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more...
22nd Apr 2026
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What you can do in a decade

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

22nd Apr 2026
I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more useful reflections.
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🔥 Battling daily procrastination 🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do?...
7th Mar 2022
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🔥 Battling daily procrastination

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

7th Mar 2022
🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? What […] The post 🔥 Battling daily procrastination appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your phone Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your...
21st Jul 2018
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New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your phone

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

21st Jul 2018
Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your phone We take our phones everywhere and trust them with a lot of sensitive information, but have we put enough thought into how to secure them? Liz and Geoffrey discuss different...
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DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 2 In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the...
5th Jan 2022
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DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 2

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

5th Jan 2022
In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the server-side components as well as coding and launching the first iteration of the site along with some of the limitations I encountered when programming on such an old system. Server...
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Fungible tokens 101
5th Aug 2022
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Fungible tokens 101

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

5th Aug 2022
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Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions
21st Feb 2023
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Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes

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

21st Feb 2023
Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions
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Are we the baddies? I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every...
5th Jul 2025
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Are we the baddies?

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

5th Jul 2025
I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every morning and feel okay about themselves? Similarly with the tip screens, Uber algorithm, all the zero sum bullshit using all the tricks of psychology to extract a little bit more...
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My productivity rules A friend asked me for some study/productivity tips, and I figured the most productive thing I can do...
8th Oct 2025
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My productivity rules

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

8th Oct 2025
A friend asked me for some study/productivity tips, and I figured the most productive thing I can do is write a post about it. That way, it might help more people too. So here we go. Before we start, there are two things you need before any productivity advice will work: Be...
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The `<details>` and `<summary>` elements are getting an upgrade Form controls are notoriously difficult to style, something the web community has been talking about...
1st Nov 2024
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The `<details>` and `<summary>` elements are getting an upgrade

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

1st Nov 2024
Form controls are notoriously difficult to style, something the web community has been talking about for years. In 2019, when I was still at Microsoft, I had been working with Greg Whitworth to start evangelizing the work that was being planned for <select>, as well as the Open...
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You Don't Need Stream Deck, You Need Macros One day, during one of those meetings that did not require my full attention, I was doing some work...
9th May 2024
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You Don't Need Stream Deck, You Need Macros

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

9th May 2024
One day, during one of those meetings that did not require my full attention, I was doing some work in the background. I muted my microphone, and I was coding away[1]. Suddenly, someone asked me a question. "Now, where is that goddamn Teams window so I can unmute my microphone?!"...
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A 30 minute introduction to Rust
11th Jan 2014
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A 30 minute introduction to Rust

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

11th Jan 2014
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How To Cache Images - React Native Expo (Managed) Caching images in React Native can be easy, even if you are using Expo’s managed workflow. The...
4th Feb 2020
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How To Cache Images - React Native Expo (Managed)

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

4th Feb 2020
Caching images in React Native can be easy, even if you are using Expo’s managed workflow. The problem many devs run into is that React Native only supports caching images on IOS out of the box.
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Fortune Telling and Speculative Design Practical tools for design engineers to explore possible futures through speculative design
a week ago
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Fortune Telling and Speculative Design

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

a week ago
Practical tools for design engineers to explore possible futures through speculative design
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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”...
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Why do many web developers hate jQuery? Why do many web developers hate jQuery? ¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery? The following is an...
22nd Nov 2016
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Why do many web developers hate jQuery?

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

22nd Nov 2016
Why do many web developers hate jQuery? ¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery? The following is an answer I originally posted to the above question posed over on Hashnode, the developer community. Thought it was worth sharing :) When jQuery was the new thing, people loved it....
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Improving Github's New Design Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
7th Jul 2020
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Improving Github's New Design

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

7th Jul 2020
Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the...
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My...
13th May 2022
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website

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

13th May 2022
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
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Don’t fix it just because it’s technical debt. Why should we only spend part of our time doing work that maximizes value, and the rest of our time...
8th May 2023
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Don’t fix it just because it’s technical debt.

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

8th May 2023
Why should we only spend part of our time doing work that maximizes value, and the rest of our time doing other, less optimal work?
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Improving the User Experience of IoT Firmware Updates
15th Nov 2016
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Improving the User Experience of IoT Firmware Updates

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

15th Nov 2016
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Structure literals vs. constructors in Rust
26th Jul 2016
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Structure literals vs. constructors in Rust

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

26th Jul 2016
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Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint I’ve been working on internal “AI” adoption, which is really LLM-tooling and agent adoption, for the...
7th Dec 2025
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Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint

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

7th Dec 2025
I’ve been working on internal “AI” adoption, which is really LLM-tooling and agent adoption, for the past 18 months or so. This is a problem that I think is, at minimum, a side-quest for every engineering leader in the current era. Given the sheer number of folks working on this...
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#35 a perfectly structured button button table { margin: 0; } .fa-arrow-left::before {content:"←"} Bad code <button type="button"...
11th Sep 2025
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#35 a perfectly structured button

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Sep 2025
button table { margin: 0; } .fa-arrow-left::before {content:"←"} Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')"> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> <i class="fa fa-arrow-left" aria-hidden="true"></i> </td> ...
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What I'm up to - July 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jul 2025
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What I'm up to - July 2025

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

1st Jul 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - I wrote a post about open-sourcing Postcard. The post got picked up by Hacker News...
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Array 1.8.0 What's box-fresh in PostHog? Cumulative graphs, better paths, and an upgrade to our actions. If...
3rd Jun 2020
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Array 1.8.0

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

3rd Jun 2020
What's box-fresh in PostHog? Cumulative graphs, better paths, and an upgrade to our actions. If you're self hosting and want these features - update…
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What I'm up to - August 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2024
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What I'm up to - August 2024

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

1st Aug 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in late June + July - Been working hard on Find AI - rolling out lots of feature and updates, st...
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Resque 1.25.0.pre has been released
23rd Jul 2013
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Resque 1.25.0.pre has been released

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

23rd Jul 2013
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Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be...
13th Sep 2021
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Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

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

13th Sep 2021
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.
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Nothing matters I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying...
4th Nov 2019
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Nothing matters

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

4th Nov 2019
I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying through space who've decided to climb down from the trees, put on costumes, and makeup names for each other. We didn't
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I gave a talk: Finding Creativity Through Constraints In which I discuss how constraints have inspired my creative process as a musician and programmer.
25th Sep 2015
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I gave a talk: Finding Creativity Through Constraints

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

25th Sep 2015
In which I discuss how constraints have inspired my creative process as a musician and programmer.
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Git explained: Commit ranges Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept...
6th Jul 2021
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Git explained: Commit ranges

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

6th Jul 2021
Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept ranges of commits in different formats, which can be confusing. In this post, I will shed some light on the differences between a b, a..b and a...b commit ranges. Check out the...
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Why should you learn Golang? [2026] Golang has skyrocketed in popularity year over year, making it one of the best choices for...
8th Feb 2021
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Why should you learn Golang? [2026]

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

8th Feb 2021
Golang has skyrocketed in popularity year over year, making it one of the best choices for career-conscious developers to learn. As an example, StackOverflow’s Developer survey saw it climb in popularity among developers from 10th in 2019 all the way to 5th in 2020. Additionally,...
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Dealing with Pathological Anxiety in Japan My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The...
10th Jul 2026
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Dealing with Pathological Anxiety in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jul 2026
My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The opportunity to break away from my comfort zone, brave new horizons, and immerse myself in new cultures has probably been the greatest joy I’ve found during my time on this Earth....
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Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
7th Jan 2024
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Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected

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

7th Jan 2024
Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but does it limit your target market?
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Basic keyboard shortcut support for focused links This is one of those cases where circumstances at my job led to needing to document expected...
21st Aug 2024
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Basic keyboard shortcut support for focused links

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

21st Aug 2024
This is one of those cases where circumstances at my job led to needing to document expected behavior in order to create “synthetic” links via JavaScript. Sometimes this sort of thing is regrettably unavoidable. A large part of the effort was capturing all the different actions...
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TypeScript is not a Programming Language If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
12th Sep 2023
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TypeScript is not a Programming Language

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

12th Sep 2023
If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
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Versioning and Releasing NPM packages with Nx (tutorial)
6th Jan 2025
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Versioning and Releasing NPM packages with Nx (tutorial)

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

6th Jan 2025
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Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in...
7th Aug 2024
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Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes)

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

7th Aug 2024
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dirty on the personal blog, and not bother bringing it up to the editorial standards...
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Writing Javascript without a build system Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend...
16th Feb 2023
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Writing Javascript without a build system

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Feb 2023
Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend project, I was faced with the question: should I use a build system? I want to talk about what’s appealing to me about build systems, why I (usually) still don’t use them, and why I find...
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Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser...
9th Mar 2023
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Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Mar 2023
I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser session. Since I’m using Svelte, having it available as a store makes sense. This article describes how to implement a Svelte store whose values are persisted in IndexedDB. What is...
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🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day? You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for...
16th May 2022
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🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day?

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

16th May 2022
You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for the […] The post 🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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2015-04-02 "- Picture two conversations sharing a congested gateway as two separate train tracks with one...
2nd Apr 2015
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2015-04-02

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

2nd Apr 2015
"- Picture two conversations sharing a congested gateway as two separate train tracks with one common section.- When a blue train waits for red trains to go through the shared section, the blue trains behind it catch up (get more clumped)- If the merge rules are efficient...
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Permanent Residency vs Naturalization in Japan: What Does the Data Tell Us? If you pay attention to news site headlines and videos from various influencers, then you’ve...
16th Feb 2026
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Permanent Residency vs Naturalization in Japan: What Does the Data Tell Us?

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Feb 2026
If you pay attention to news site headlines and videos from various influencers, then you’ve probably heard some of these claims involving international residents in Japan: Nobody stays more than a few years Permanent residency is impossible to get Citizenship is easy to...
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The Gift Economy Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
3rd Aug 2020
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The Gift Economy

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

3rd Aug 2020
Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
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The YC Interview We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear...
1st Jan 2020
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The YC Interview

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

1st Jan 2020
We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear back, but then we did. It was now October 16th…
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Drawbacks of developing in containers It seems like everyone these days is developing in containers. Specifically, I mean running your...
1st Feb 2021
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Drawbacks of developing in containers

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

1st Feb 2021
It seems like everyone these days is developing in containers. Specifically, I mean running your local development environment almost entirely in containers. There's a lot to be said for it, especially when you're bringing new developers into a project: it can be an invaluable...
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024 Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The...
5th Nov 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024

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

5th Nov 2024
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The Boots’ aura XP boost even hit 2x for a while there.
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What I'm up to - July 2022 This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in...
1st Jul 2022
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What I'm up to - July 2022

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

1st Jul 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in Webflow, a project I've lead to redesign and rebuild a popular social site for Webflow creators - Seein...
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Engineering a culture We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a...
31st Mar 2024
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Engineering a culture

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

31st Mar 2024
We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a regression — and the team quickly jumped on it, getting it root caused and fixed. But on the other, this particular issue was something of an Oxide object lesson, representative not...
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A decade of code A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and...
10th May 2024
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A decade of code

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

10th May 2024
A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and CSS exactly ten years ago, reflecting on the lucky turning points that brought me to where I am today.
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PHP: Avatar Hack A php script that generates an image for use as an avatar.
9th Oct 2008
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PHP: Avatar Hack

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

9th Oct 2008
A php script that generates an image for use as an avatar.
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"Logic for Programmers" Project Update Happy new year everyone! I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's...
7th Jan 2025
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"Logic for Programmers" Project Update

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

7th Jan 2025
Happy new year everyone! I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's since been four new versions since then, with the November release putting us in beta. Between work and holidays I didn't make much progress in December, but there will be a 0.6...
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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...
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CSS vs. JavaScript There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether...
26th May 2026
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CSS vs. JavaScript

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

26th May 2026
There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether there’s a performance cost compared to traditional CSS transitions and keyframe animations. In this blog post, we’ll compare the same animation across several different strategies...
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Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages
19th Jan 2024
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Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages

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

19th Jan 2024
Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages
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How we handle team emails at our startup: Defaulting to transparency * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s an exciting...
5th Dec 2013
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How we handle team emails at our startup: Defaulting to transparency

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

5th Dec 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s an exciting time for Buffer. Toby Osbourn [https://twitter.com/tosbourn] just joined and we’re now 16 people. Toby joined us as a Backend Hacker [http://jobs.bufferapp.com/backend-hacker],...
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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
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RobotEra Snatches Silver in Sock Inversion New Silver Medal!
13th Mar 2026
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RobotEra Snatches Silver in Sock Inversion

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

13th Mar 2026
New Silver Medal!
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Whatever happened to sandboxfs? Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into...
11th Jun 2025
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Whatever happened to sandboxfs?

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

11th Jun 2025
Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my attempt to solve a persistent pain point that frustrated both internal teams and...
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The Importance Of Manual Accessibility Testing
12th Sep 2018
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The Importance Of Manual Accessibility Testing

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

12th Sep 2018
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Why sharing a redis cluster across services is asking for trouble If there’s one pattern I’ve seen across multiple companies, from scrappy startups to big corps, that...
1st May 2025
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Why sharing a redis cluster across services is asking for trouble

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

1st May 2025
If there’s one pattern I’ve seen across multiple companies, from scrappy startups to big corps, that causes endless headaches, it’s this: a single cache cluster shared across services. I recently shortly wrote about my lessons from building and maintaining distributed systems at...
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Software engineers hate code. This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially...
8th Jul 2023
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Software engineers hate code.

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

8th Jul 2023
This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches! Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams...
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Ho Rudolph Rudolph claps back.
24th Dec 2013
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Ho Rudolph

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

24th Dec 2013
Rudolph claps back.
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Vicuna A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models...
5th Apr 2023
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Vicuna

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2023
A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models like this, such as Alpaca and GPT4All. And I also fine-tuned my own. But Vicuna is a lot better. Here is a conversation I had with it. User: Write a limerick about language...
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Naked Emperors in Tech Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
6th Nov 2020
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Naked Emperors in Tech

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

6th Nov 2020
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
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EndBASIC 0.11 is here Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
20th Jul 2024
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EndBASIC 0.11 is here

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

20th Jul 2024
Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
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Barbershop multi-track: Cry I recorded a multi-track of the barbershop tag 'Cry'
7th May 2008
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Barbershop multi-track: Cry

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

7th May 2008
I recorded a multi-track of the barbershop tag 'Cry'
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thinking around a pen Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that...
1st Sep 2020
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thinking around a pen

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

1st Sep 2020
Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that has annoyed me was that over time they have limited features more and more behind a pay wall for a pro account...
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Kill the crunch time heroics Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You...
2nd Nov 2018
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Kill the crunch time heroics

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

2nd Nov 2018
Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You can push hard and get that next release done on time, get those new features out, earn more revenue for your company. Engineers are under immense pressure to deliver more and do it...
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The smallest (useful) HTTP responses possible
2nd Nov 2024
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The smallest (useful) HTTP responses possible

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

2nd Nov 2024
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Kagi status update: First three years Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to...
2nd Jun 2025
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Kagi status update: First three years

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

2nd Jun 2025
Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to which we are eternally grateful for helping put Kagi on the map).
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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.
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pixelsim
27th Nov 2013
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pixelsim

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

27th Nov 2013
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Organizing a design system via folksonomy Design systems are organized in an imperative, top-down, hierarchical way. By this, I mean its...
15th May 2025
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Organizing a design system via folksonomy

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

15th May 2025
Design systems are organized in an imperative, top-down, hierarchical way. By this, I mean its maintainers decide on categories of content, and then how that content is ordered. This is done as a calculated bet to best serve the known and unknown audiences who consume the design...
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Modern CSS patterns in Campfire Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live...
4th Apr 2024
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Modern CSS patterns in Campfire

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

4th Apr 2024
Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live walk through the app’s CSS code. Campfire was built with vanilla CSS, fully #nobuild without compiling or preprocessors, and uses the latest web platform features available in...
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The Angels and Demons of Nondeterminism Greetings everyone! You might have noticed that it's September and I don't have the next version of...
4th Sep 2025
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The Angels and Demons of Nondeterminism

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

4th Sep 2025
Greetings everyone! You might have noticed that it's September and I don't have the next version of Logic for Programmers ready. As penance, here's ten free copies of the book. So a few months ago I wrote a newsletter about how we use nondeterminism in formal methods. The...
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The Problem with Education is a Problem of Incentives I’ve found that almost anyone I talk to agrees with the statement: There is something wrong with...
10th May 2022
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The Problem with Education is a Problem of Incentives

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

10th May 2022
I’ve found that almost anyone I talk to agrees with the statement: There is something wrong with education, particularly higher education.
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Bloop! Audible Error Logs As a frequent deployer of software, I’m usually watching several different flavors of system...
7th Jun 2018
1

Bloop! Audible Error Logs

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

7th Jun 2018
As a frequent deployer of software, I’m usually watching several different flavors of system monitoring all at the same time. A few logstash dashboards in a few browser windows, a few grafana dashboards, a few different logs being tailed in a few different tmux windows. If it all...
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[Talk] Scaling Graphs On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable...
5th Apr 2016
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[Talk] Scaling Graphs

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

5th Apr 2016
On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable on YouTube: If you have thoughts on scaling graphs or big data in general, please reach out to me! I'm always happy to talk about this.
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AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users New Logic for Programmers Release v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on...
5th Jun 2025
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AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users

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

5th Jun 2025
New Logic for Programmers Release v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on logic-based refactoring, with new material on set types and testing refactors are correct. See the full release notes at the changelog page. Due to conference pressure v0.11 will...
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Assumed Audiences Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
8th Jan 2022
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Assumed Audiences

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

8th Jan 2022
Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
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How To Know When It's Time To Go I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not...
9th Jul 2024
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How To Know When It's Time To Go

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

9th Jul 2024
I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not failing ability in any way, but after a year of consideration, I realized I didn't care to do it anymore. Everyone will eventually reach a point at
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"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge" in Rust
25th Oct 2017
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"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge" in Rust

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

25th Oct 2017
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How I set up my Obsidian vaults Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve...
19th Sep 2023
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How I set up my Obsidian vaults

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Sep 2023
Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve been using it for nearly three years. Time flies when you’re organising information! I’ve grown to really like it, and I expect to keep using it for a while to come. Its approach...
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Samantha Cristoforetti's Logbook <![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space...
23rd Nov 2024
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Samantha Cristoforetti's Logbook

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

23rd Nov 2024
<![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space flight. On November 23, 2014 she was launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a mission to the International Space Station. I had the privilege of helping Samantha with a public...
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57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are...
24th Dec 2017
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57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Dec 2017
MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are available on Vimeo but not well indexed. They have a better index (and another here) on their website, but also not great. This is a list of videos and a bit of info about each...
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Using fewer parts Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
26th Nov 2023
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Using fewer parts

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

26th Nov 2023
Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
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Fab Boombox
18th Dec 2011
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Fab Boombox

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

18th Dec 2011
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Mach’s principle
2nd Jul 2023
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Mach’s principle

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

2nd Jul 2023
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You can't always fix it I have some weird hobbies, and one of those is opening up the network tab on just about anything I'm...
2nd Mar 2026
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You can't always fix it

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

2nd Mar 2026
I have some weird hobbies, and one of those is opening up the network tab on just about anything I'm using. Sometimes, I find egregious problems. Usually, this is something that can be fixed, when responsibly reported. But over time, I learned a bitter lesson: sometimes, you...
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September 2020
1st Sep 2020
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September 2020

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

1st Sep 2020
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Preserving Winamp skins for posterity at the Internet Archive The story of how the Internet Archive came to preserve over 100k Winamp skins and include Webamp as...
5th Apr 2025
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Preserving Winamp skins for posterity at the Internet Archive

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

5th Apr 2025
The story of how the Internet Archive came to preserve over 100k Winamp skins and include Webamp as one of their embedded media players
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How I write blog posts every month What I've learned after writing regularly for half a year.
17th Feb 2018
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How I write blog posts every month

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

17th Feb 2018
What I've learned after writing regularly for half a year.
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How do Nix builds work? Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix...
3rd Mar 2023
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How do Nix builds work?

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2023
Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix builds work under the hood, so here’s a quick exploration I did today. There are probably some mistakes in here. I started by complaining on Mastodon: are there any guides to nix that...
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The Prospero Challenge
24th Mar 2025
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The Prospero Challenge

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

24th Mar 2025
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How I Take and Publish Notes I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of...
3rd Dec 2023
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How I Take and Publish Notes

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

3rd Dec 2023
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of my favorite aspects of its design. But I’ve yet to write about how I take and publish notes to it. The other day Bill Beckelman emailed me and told me he made a similar site of...
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On life as an independent contractor right now Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in...
1st Nov 2024
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On life as an independent contractor right now

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

1st Nov 2024
Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in response to people both from the Netherlands and from abroad who have shown interest in working as an independent contractor over here. As Google Analytics tell me only a small portion...
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Not everyone can be the best Many software developers seem to have a uniquely hard time accepting that not everyone who just...
4th Aug 2023
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Not everyone can be the best

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Aug 2023
Many software developers seem to have a uniquely hard time accepting that not everyone who just tries real hard will become so good as to be among the best in this field. That there really is a discrepancy of talent that leads to a discrepancy of competence. That not everyone can...
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A Quick(ish) Introduction to Tuning Postgres Learn some of the most important elements of tuning Postgres for performance and get a better...
21st Jul 2025
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A Quick(ish) Introduction to Tuning Postgres

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Jul 2025
Learn some of the most important elements of tuning Postgres for performance and get a better understanding of Postgres fundamentals along the way.
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What I'm up to - May 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st May 2026
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What I'm up to - May 2026

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

1st May 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in April - Visited NYC briefly. Discovered a new cafe I like called WatchHouse - they even happened to be...
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Early simulations with GravityLoops <![CDATA[GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS, can finally show something on...
13th Jul 2026
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Early simulations with GravityLoops

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

13th Jul 2026
<![CDATA[GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS, can finally show something on the screen. The program now animates a body of mass like the Moon interacting under gravity with a body of mass like the Earth. The dots in the simulation window here are the bodies...
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Sneaky Header Blocker Trick There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often...
23rd Mar 2026
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Sneaky Header Blocker Trick

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

23rd Mar 2026
There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often reach out, asking how on earth it works. It feels like it defies the rules of CSS! In this blog post, I’ll break down the surprisingly-straightforward implementation so you can...
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add...
26th Dec 2018
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity

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

26th Dec 2018
Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add authentication and serverless functionality and get up and running incredibly quickly with Netlify - here's how.
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