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HTMHell
#20 HTMHell special: close buttons This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in...
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This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in front-end development: 🔥 the close button. 🔥 In modals, ads, and other overlays you often find a button with a close symbol that allows users, or at least some of them, to close...
ntietz.com blog -...
Using Talon in a game jam I use Talon to control my computer some of the time. It's mostly voice control, but it has so many...
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a month ago
I use Talon to control my computer some of the time. It's mostly voice control, but it has so many other controls built in! One lets you use an eye tracker as a mouse. I thought this sounded like a neat interaction for other situations too. When I mentioned this to a friend, he...
Writing - Andreas...
Why I don’t give investment advice When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for...
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When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for confirmation that what they do is great (it’s usually not) or some sort of secret sauce for outperforming the market (which doesn’t exist). So people are inevitably disappointed by the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cat and Mouse Read more about RSS Club. When we first moved in to our current house, we had a mouse...
a year ago
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a year ago
Read more about RSS Club. When we first moved in to our current house, we had a mouse problem. Well, I should say “mice” problem because it was definitely plural and not just one solitary mouse chillin in the house. As a new homeowner, I was distraught. I tried all kinds...
Vadim Kravcenko
✍️ Being an Amateur When you’re an expert, you’re so far from the realities of the beginners that your advice might not...
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over a year ago
When you’re an expert, you’re so far from the realities of the beginners that your advice might not be useful. […] The post ✍️ Being an Amateur appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Patrick Kayongo
A World Offline Loadshedding has hit South Africa in a bad way. Interruptions to electricity has disrupted...
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a year ago
Loadshedding has hit South Africa in a bad way. Interruptions to electricity has disrupted businesses and resulted in unanticipated cost increases from those who have had to find alternative sources of electricity. 16 years ago, it was unimaginable that we would have some days...
A Smart Bear
The "Talk vs Walk" framework This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and Product, generating actions for both sides that make products more desirable and competitive.
Kevin Chen
!!Con West 2019 Notes !!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
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over a year ago
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to computers! At the beginning of last year’s !!Con, I wrote: This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech scene. I’m...
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES implementation The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that scary in practice. Let’s...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that scary in practice. Let’s take a look at the implementation in the Go standard library. Even I can understand it!
HTMHell
#17 inaccessible cards Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text. Bad code <section> ...
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Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text. Bad code <section> <section> <h2>Overview</h2> <figure class="card" data-url="image1.html" style="background: url(image1.jpg)"> <figcaption> <h4>My heading</h4> ...
Making software...
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice...
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over a year ago
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice in web design, but many times it requires JavaScript to properly implement. Fortunately it is possible to create tabbed content with only using CSS. Live CodePen...
Seldo.com
You Will Never Be A Full Stack Developer
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Buffer's product journey, and our next step to hire a VP of Product Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. We've been building Buffer for coming up to ten...
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. We've been building Buffer for coming up to ten years now. We’re currently a 90-person fully remote team with over 70,000 paying customers and $20M in annual revenue. We’re proud to be a leader
The Codist
I Learned How To Program 50 Years Ago In the fall of the 1973-1974 school year, my public high school offered a class in computer...
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In the fall of the 1973-1974 school year, my public high school offered a class in computer programming. This class was rare for its time, as there were few computers in the world accessible for students, and most people had no idea what they could do other than seeing HAL
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"No Code" Is A Lie _Originally published on [the Webflow blog](https://webflow.com/blog/no-code-is-a-lie)._
over a year ago
Computer Things
TLA from first principles No Newsletter next week I'll be speaking at USENIX SRECon! TLA from first principles I'm working on...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
No Newsletter next week I'll be speaking at USENIX SRECon! TLA from first principles I'm working on v0.5 of Logic for Programmers. In the process of revising the "System Modeling" chapter, I stumbled on a great way to explain the temporal logic of actions that TLA+ is based on....
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Revolutionizing Audio with Descript and Temporal A case study I published for my work at Temporal
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Origin of Online Handles There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about. For example:...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about. For example: Jeremy Keith is “Adactio”. I have no idea what that word means. A quick internet search reveals no hints. Even ChatGPT has no idea. Dave Rupert is davatron5000. I wonder where...
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How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish...
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a year ago
note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts.
Posts on Nikita...
Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it. Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
A Smart Bear
Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision Binstack is the best way to select a “single most impactful” solution when there are multiple...
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Binstack is the best way to select a “single most impactful” solution when there are multiple dimensions to evaluate, even when those dimensions cannot be compared to each other. People often reach for the “rubric” for such puzzles, but rubrics often do not clearly identify a...
Daniel Marino
GitHub Game Off 2021 Retrospective Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve been a part of. I had some lofty goals for this game, and I just about met them all. I’m extremely happy with how the game came out! Like prior games I’ve made, I don’t tend to...
David Gerrells
journey before destination It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the accolades in the future.
David Heinemeier...
Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle...
a year ago
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a year ago
By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle with joy from dousing JavaScript with explicit types that can be checked by a compiler. But I've never been a fan. Not after giving it five minutes, not after giving it five years....
HTMHell
Web Components FTW! by Chris Ferdinandi Web Components are a collection of technologies that you can use to create...
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by Chris Ferdinandi Web Components are a collection of technologies that you can use to create reusable custom elements, with built-in interactivity, automatically scoped (or encapsulated) from the rest of your code. They have a wide range of features and functionality (some...
Writing - Andreas...
Using fewer parts Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Fundraising for SaaS Startups This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Fundraising for SaaS Startups appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Observability for Frontend Developers Some thoughts on how frontend developers can also embrace instrumenting their apps for observability
over a year ago
General Robots
Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
7 months ago
Computer Things
Planning vs Model Checking New blogpost! Planner programming blows my mind, Patreon here. Next essay out should be the graph...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
New blogpost! Planner programming blows my mind, Patreon here. Next essay out should be the graph project. The post is about Picat and more specifically, planner programming. Planning very roughly is: You provide a start state, a set of goals, and a set of state transitions...
David Heinemeier...
Workfeed goes to America During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd...
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a year ago
During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd work towards becoming profitable, remaining in the country, and avoiding the VC timebomb. The one that has already fulfilled all the objectives is Workfeed, and now they're ready to...
Joel Gascoigne
The evolution of culture at a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s now 2 years...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s now 2 years since I launched Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], and the company has grown from just myself (working from my bedroom) to a team of 7. In the last few months, I’ve been thinking a...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.31.0 PostHog 1.31.0 introduces Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped overall user...
over a year ago
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PostHog 1.31.0 introduces Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped overall user experience on Insights and 350+ more improvements and fixes.
bt RSS Feed
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal...
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Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It’s pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc. The only small...
TokyoDev
僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について This article is also available [in...
over a year ago
Jibran’s Perspective
Deploying Ruby on Rails to AWS with Kamal As part of a contracting project, I’ve been building an analytics dashboard for a feedback...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
As part of a contracting project, I’ve been building an analytics dashboard for a feedback collection SaaS. The app is built in Ruby on Rails and given all the nice things I’ve heard about Kamal; I decided to use it for deploying the app. The experience has been phenomenal;...
Liz Denys
gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA encouraged us to practice creating diagrams for our design project proposals by trying to identify UNIX commands or filesystem structures from our partner's drawings. He claims that...
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Errors Are Not Exceptions Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is...
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Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is wrong.
Nelson's Weblog
Proxmox Proxmox is good software for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that lets...
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Proxmox is good software for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that lets you easily run multiple virtual machines and LXC containers. It also manages disk storage and has some more complex support for high availability in a cluster, distributed storage...
Making software...
Never Do Spec Work for Free Never Do Spec Work for Free 2022-11-07 Your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Let...
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Never Do Spec Work for Free 2022-11-07 Your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Let me say that again for the people in the back: your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Time is the most precious commodity we have as human beings, so never waste...
ntietz.com blog
Great management and leadership books for the technical track In tech, we're fortunate to have separate management and technical tracks, though it's still...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In tech, we're fortunate to have separate management and technical tracks, though it's still underdeveloped1. However, the path you take isn't very clear, it's not broadly understood what the responsibilities are, and there aren't as many resources out there as there are for...
Joel Gascoigne
Creating order from chaos in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been pondering recently about how my latest venture has very much felt like cycling between creating order from chaos and then ending up with chaos again. I wanted to share my experiences and...
blag
About Some Stuff About Me
over a year ago
Remains of the Day
TikTok and the Sorting Hat I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people...
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I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people with other dominant worldviews, though I am not a strict adherent. It’s more that in many situations when people ascribe causal power to something other than culture, I’m...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s Meaning in the Ordering of the Web’s Tech Stack I was watching Zach’s presentation at JSHeroes 2023, “The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components”,...
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I was watching Zach’s presentation at JSHeroes 2023, “The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components”, and a subtle point stuck out to me at the ending of his talk. When you run into performance problems, it's [because you tried] to reorder these things or combine them in weird...
Liz Denys
Denim coffee pitcher, 2024 Blue jeans / well worn leather / rows of cornflowers along a dirt path
8 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Wonderful vi The speed of change in technology often appears to be the industry's defining characteristic....
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The speed of change in technology often appears to be the industry's defining characteristic. Nothing highlights that perception more than the recent and relentless march of AI advancements. But for as much as some things in technology change, many other things stay the same....
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with nanosecond sorting If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about...
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If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about algorithmic complexity probably wouldn't apply. The most effective algorithms become mediocre while the useless rise from the oblivion to shine and amaze. One of these algorithms is the...
37signals Dev
Solid Cache We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and...
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We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and HEY. Solid Cache uses a SQL database as its cache store. We get a much larger cache at a fraction of the storage costs of memory caches like Redis or Memcached. For us, that’s a...
Steve Klabnik
Contributing to Ruby's documentation
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Open Source Typeface Pairings Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
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over a year ago
Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost). So, I’ve...
A Smart Bear
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...
11 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Should I quit my well-paid job to start a startup? Short answer: Do it in your spare time. Dip your toes into the startup world without going full...
a year ago
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a year ago
Short answer: Do it in your spare time. Dip your toes into the startup world without going full crazy. Test […] The post Should I quit my well-paid job to start a startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit...
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a year ago
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit all the basic functionality into an astounding 400 bytes. For reference, the popular zod and yup libraries are around 11KB, superstruct measures 1.8KB for the same set of...
Engineer’s Codex
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
5 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Language Servers are the New Frameworks Developer Experience is shifting left, all the way to onKeyUp.
over a year ago
HTMHell
Preventing form submission with zero Javascript Want to trigger an action? Use a button element. They’re great. Want to also prevent form submission...
a year ago
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a year ago
Want to trigger an action? Use a button element. They’re great. Want to also prevent form submission when someone clicks that button? Put down the JavaScript, friend. I have a better suggestion: <button type="button"> Button action goes here </button> And that’s it! No ...
ntietz.com blog
The bittersweet end of a year of independence Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention was to do freelance work ("consulting", to all my clients) until I was able to launch my first product, and then shift into being a product company. My ambitions and confidence...
Code Of Honor
Credit where credit is due I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years...
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I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
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Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit...
a year ago
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a year ago
I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit today. I am now taking Latent Space (the new name enabled by the previous owner of that domain selling it to me in my first P2P domain purchase) a lot more seriously with the support...
Liz Denys
A short comic about the Internet Protocol Just a cleaned up version of a silly little comic that I came up with during a 6.033 (Computer...
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Just a cleaned up version of a silly little comic that I came up with during a 6.033 (Computer Systems Engineering) recitation last semester:
David Heinemeier...
Don't lose your unreasonable sense of urgency Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to launch something  from nothing into reality without being incredibly impatient for progress. Thus most founders begin 🎶Their Journey🎶 sprinting from one pressing problem to the...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on comments For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a good blog post without a relevant discussion to accompany it? You might find it strange to learn that Postleaf doesn't ship with comments. This is by design, and I'll explain why...
Epic Web Dev
Support Responsive Favicons for a Professional Look (tip) Create a responsive favicon that adapts to the user's system preference for light or dark mode.
a year ago
Julia Evans
Some miscellaneous git facts I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I already knew Git pretty...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I already knew Git pretty well, but as usual when I try to explain something I’ve been learning some new things. None of these things feel super surprising in retrospect, but I hadn’t thought about them...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Using Quadratic to Discover Newsletter Links I built myself a daily email digest that informs me who is linking back to my blog. It’s a fun way...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I built myself a daily email digest that informs me who is linking back to my blog. It’s a fun way to discover new people, blogs, and newsletter that I didn’t know existed. I recently saw links to my blog from the tldr newsletter but didn’t know which posts specifically they were...
MMapped blog
Transaction models are programming paradigms
4 months ago
The Pragmatic...
Building an an Early Stage Startup: Lessons from Akita Software Jean Yang sold her startup to Postman, and shares the details on what happened in the 5 years...
a year ago
Kagi Blog
New features in the Orion Browser *Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing...
a year ago
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a year ago
*Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing over 160 new features, improvements, and bug fixes, making this our most significant release ever.
Maggie Appleton
Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics
over a year ago
Irrational...
Executive translation. One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts is Extract the Kernel, which argues that executives...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts is Extract the Kernel, which argues that executives are generally directionally correct but specifically wrong, and it’s your job to understand the overarching direction without getting distracted by the narrow errors in their...
Liz Denys
A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Library Blanket When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love. The marled combinations of oranges, pinks, blues, and purples were calling to me, so I ordered a kit right away. Other knitters commented that while they loved the pattern, the...
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Nov 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Stripe Goes No-Code — Stripe Payment Links Explained Stripe has entered the No Code market in a big way! I take a crack at explaining what it's doing and...
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, September 2023 The Ware for September 2023 is shown below. Thanks to FETguy for contributing this ware!
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero 2022-03-14 For the past few years, I’ve been using a set of...
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over a year ago
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero 2022-03-14 For the past few years, I’ve been using a set of Eero routers as my home mesh network. It’s worked fairly great in that time and even seamlessly transitioned without any hiccups when my family moved house. During the initial setup,...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
The most useful programming language Aspiring developers often ask me what's the best programming language to learn. Personally, I mostly...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Aspiring developers often ask me what's the best programming language to learn. Personally, I mostly work with JS — solid choice, but everyone and their dog learns JS these days, so it might be time to add some diversity. I'm curious — which single programming language covers the...
Engineer’s Codex
The Boolean Trap Use enums instead
3 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit...
a year ago
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a year ago
I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit today. I am now taking Latent Space (the new name enabled by the previous owner of that domain selling it to me in my first P2P domain purchase) a lot more seriously with the support...
Making software...
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
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over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up "dynamic" navigation in Jekyll. The problem I've noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
ntietz.com blog
Names should be cute, not descriptive A long-standing debate between me and a peer at work has been how we should name services. His...
a year ago
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a year ago
A long-standing debate between me and a peer at work has been how we should name services. His position was always that services should be named something descriptive, so that you can infer from the name what it does. My position is that the name should definitely not be...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Failed Personal Site Redesign Me a few weeks ago: tfw when you have an idea for a personal website redesign, and then you build...
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4 months ago
Me a few weeks ago: tfw when you have an idea for a personal website redesign, and then you build it, and then you hate it, and then you have to decide whether to ship it anyway or keep what you have As you can probably guess from the title[1], I decided to keep what I have and...
PostHog's RSS Feed
I used to think you don't need product people. I was wrong. When PostHog was fresh out of YC last year, there were two things we focused on: (i) build and (ii)...
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over a year ago
When PostHog was fresh out of YC last year, there were two things we focused on: (i) build and (ii) talk to customers. Hiring a product person felt…
Joel Gascoigne
Does location really matter for your startup? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Some of you may...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Some of you may know that I just left everything behind in the UK and together with my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] arrived in San Francisco to base ourselves and Buffer...
Seldo.com
Biographies of every US president as audiobooks
over a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding useMemo and useCallback What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of reasons. In this tutorial, we'll dig deep and understand what they do, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them.
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Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low profit. Like entropy, this is the inevitable fate of a company, unless it exerts intentional force to the contrary. Moats are this force, and your strategy must identify how to create...
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How we monetized our open source devtool So, you’ve decided to build an open-source product. While your choice is highly commendable, the...
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I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed all of my text notes, and I’m gradually using it for images too. To help me find my images, I’ve written a small Obsidian plugin. When I click the little picture icon in the sidebar,...
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Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since [checks archives] 2005. As of late his writing has gone quiet, but he’s got a new book due out early next year and I think he’s starting up blogging again to help drum up interest....
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Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can. You already know you can increase and decrease your Mac's volume with the keyboard, but sometimes the intervals are a bit too much. I usually end up adjusting my external speakers just to...
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I’ve been using just for a lot of my projects. It helps a bunch with the context-switching: I can open most project directories and run just dev, and it’ll boot up the server that I need. For example, the blog’s justfile has: dev: bundle exec jekyll serve --watch --live...
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VC is a tool, not a religion We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1...
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We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1 – We started bootstrapping, then changed our minds…
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Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most important technology-related privacy issues influencing your physical safety, so make sure to catch the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security: Digital photos and privacy Digital...
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A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring. The specific problem doesn't matter, so don't focus on the technical details here. Hey Nicole! At $DAYJOB, we have some big problems and it's frustrating, I keep pointing them out and...
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We live in a world where front end developers are fatigued from the framework wars. Most have settled into a niche — especially the React crowd — and they’re happy to not have to think outside that box. They are, by far, the hardest crowd to sell web components to. I'm not...
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After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is finally for sale for all! This is The Moment of Truth where we get to see whether all that excitement turns into credit card swipes. That release rush. I love it. And I especially love...
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Robin has an interesting post about the technology of words: Thinking of a language as a technology or a product is strange at first but the more you look at them the more they resemble microwaves or dishwashers; incredibly complicated under the hood but also sort of boring on...
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Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your log files to know that hackers running site-scanners are constantly hitting your servers looking for unpatched vulnerabilities to exploit. One of the servers I wrote for Guild...
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How to run a transparent startup There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's...
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There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's advantage. Most companies seem to share when necessary but…
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I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in full: If you could call yourself 10 years ago and speak for a minute, what would you say? That's the thought that was going through my mind when I got
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Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's now to identify and avoid this trap.
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When I took over the team, they were in month 8 of a 3-month project to relaunch the company's ecommerce website. After 2 months leading the team, I decided to scrap it and start over. This is the story of how and why, and whether it all worked out.
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Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities." Apologies for the clefs, but it was the least nasty way to span the piano. You can grab a full copy of the score.
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The world would be more fun if most startups hadn't undergone a personality vasectomy. Be it the human instinct for conformity, or the inevitable…
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I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve decided to write about a few of those…
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$.postJSON() for jQuery $.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response....
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$.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response. Alas, the jQuery documentation lacks a sister function that should be named $.postJSON(). Why not just use $.getJSON() and be done with it? Well, perhaps you want to send a large...
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On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?”. This is a particularly obscure bug with IE that has caused me lots of grief. First of all, it is indeed a bug with IE. This behavior can be...
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How to increase test coverage FAST The second quarter is coming to an end. I suppose a lot of my fellow developers are struggling to...
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The second quarter is coming to an end. I suppose a lot of my fellow developers are struggling to meet their ambitious KPI of "20% more test coverage". Fear not — I'll show you a couple of neat tricks that will up your coverage game in no time, so that you can go on with your...
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I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now installable! While we highly recommend you don’t run these experimental builds in production, they’re perfect for trying in a virtual machine or a spare computer. Early Access is a...
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Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition effects in SvelteKit sites and apps as easy as adding just a few lines of code.
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I’ve written a post on the Flickr Foundation blog about Flickypedia Backfillr Bot, a new bot I built last year and which has been running ever since: Last year, we built Flickypedia, a new tool for copying photos from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons. As part of our planning, we asked...
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Getting proportionally-resized dimensions of an image This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of...
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This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of dimensions. get_resized_dimensions() # Parameters # $width - The width of the image to be resized $height - The height of the image to be resized $max_width - The maximum allowed width of the...
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I've been engaged in an ongoing war with spammers. Because Bear is free-to-use it's naturally the target of backlink farmers, credit card phishers, illegal drug sellers, online casino advertisers, and crypto shillers. I won't go into too much detail on the causes. I've written...
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More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential...
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Multi-tenancy is what’s hard about scaling web services Computers have gotten so ridiculously fast that there is scarcely any organization in the world that...
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Computers have gotten so ridiculously fast that there is scarcely any organization in the world that can overwhelm a web-based information system running on a single server. All the complexity and sophistication required to run web services today stem from multi-tenancy. From...
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The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this...
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Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this duality, information is lost — either writing involves too much effort, or reading requires too much context.
Seán Barry
Using Git Bisect to Find Code Regressions Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool...
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Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool for the job.
Florian Bellmann |...
You are never taught how to build quality software Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn...
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Enablement vs Ownership Roles Two ways to approach responsibility in a company.
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The most popular Mixpanel alternatives, compared The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces...
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The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces multiple tools. The fastest growing Mixpanel…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Guest Appearance on ShopTalk Show #605 Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all...
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Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all things web. The conversation was fun and casual, mostly around topics I’ve written about recently — which is good, since those are topics I should (presumably) be able to speak on at...
TokyoDev
The Difficulties of Getting a Software Developer Job in Japan in 2023 Given the current climate in tech globally, people often ask me what the current situation in Japan...
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Given the current climate in tech globally, people often ask me what the current situation in Japan is. Overall, my impression is that it is nowhere as bad as places like the US, but nevertheless I have been hearing stories of developers struggling to get jobs here. In this...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
JavaScript Is Enabled by Default in Web Browsers It’s easy to talk bad about JavaScript (or at least its abuse) like it’s some kind of malware. But...
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It’s easy to talk bad about JavaScript (or at least its abuse) like it’s some kind of malware. But it’s worth remembering that JavaScript is enabled by default in web browsers. JavaScript is not so terrible, so harmful, so taboo, so something you shouldn’t use that it’s turned...
Julia Evans
New zine: How Git Works! Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It...
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Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It came out on Friday! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/git, or get an 14-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table...
Oxide Computer...
Reflections on Founder Mode Paul Graham’s Founder Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason that...
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Paul Graham’s Founder Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason that "founder mode" will surely enter the lexicon (and as Graham grimly predicts: "as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people will start misusing it"). When...
A Beautiful Site
Find a name for almost any hex color Have you ever wondered what color that certain shade of blue is? Or maybe you've named your...
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Have you ever wondered what color that certain shade of blue is? Or maybe you've named your Less/Sass variables something like gray, light gray, lighter gray, etc. Here's a tool that will give you more reasonable names for all those colors. Name that Color lets you enter a hex...
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JavaScript: the First 20 Years by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich A link to the 190 page history of JS by its original creator and the editor of ES6.
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Alice GG
How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS? When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky...
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When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question. On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waking up to an unexpected 100k$ bill from their provider. But on the other hand, you will see providers advertising costs...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Dinner Conversation Read more about RSS Club. I love following the blogs of people in tech who have interesting,...
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Read more about RSS Club. I love following the blogs of people in tech who have interesting, insightful things to say about the industry and their craft. I also really enjoy when those same people post little insights into their personal lives. I love seeing the human side...
Liz Denys
Notes on cone 6 clay bodies, part 2 I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've...
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I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've used. Note that I currently practice in a community studio that glaze fires to cone 6 in oxidation, so my observations reflect that. Standard 420 Sculpture: Cone 6: average shrinkage...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2023 The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like...
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The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like the ATOMSTACK Laser Engraver (link without affiliate code), and the module itself is produced by Shenzhen Xinghan Laser Technology Co, Ltd.. I don’t have an exact part number for...
bt RSS Feed
Write HTML Like It's 1999 Write HTML Like It’s 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it’s safe to say that most developers love to use the...
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Write HTML Like It’s 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it’s safe to say that most developers love to use the latest and greatest web tools available. Helpful resources such as preprocessors, template engines, syntax formatters - you name it - can all make a developer’s life easier....
A Smart Bear
Profitable on day one! You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable....
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You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable. Fix your definition of "profitable," and build a truly profitable business.
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Favorite Podcasts 250 Podcasts I enjoy listening to
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Making software...
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
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Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages: libnettle6 libhogweed4 After...
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NoteCards visited a website for the first time <![CDATA[Success! My WebCard prototype made NoteCards visit a site on the World-Wide Web for the...
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<![CDATA[Success! My WebCard prototype made NoteCards visit a site on the World-Wide Web for the first time. Think of it as a wormhole that connects the old world of hypertext with the new world of the modern web. WebCard, a NoteCards extension for visiting websites, is my...
alexwlchan
Parsing CloudFront logs with Python I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do...
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I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do this, and I normally reach for Python inside a Jupyter Notebook because those are tools I’m very familiar with. I’ve done this a few times now, so I thought it’d be worth pulling...
Acko.net
The Bouquet Residence Keeping up appearances in tech I saw a remarkable pair of tweets the other day. In the wake of...
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Keeping up appearances in tech I saw a remarkable pair of tweets the other day. In the wake of the outage, the CEO of CrowdStrike sent out a public announcement. It's purely factual. The scope of the problem is identified, the known facts are stated, and the logistics of...
alexwlchan
“Fixing” the rules of division Yesterday evening, Kate posted this tweet: Kate @thingskatedid i don't...
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Yesterday evening, Kate posted this tweet: Kate @thingskatedid i don't *care* how maths works, half of zero should be 0.5 6:33 PM - 22 Sep 2022 This tweet promptly crawled inside my brain and sat there until I figured out how to make it work. I...
Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
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Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a chore: 1....
The Changelog
Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a...
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Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a corporate or home network from a remote location, and access services as if you were there. But these days, the notion of “corporate network” and “home network” are less based around...
Liz Denys
Trashy Holidays from [the rats of] New York City! This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most...
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This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most iconic images: The back of the card explains why this problem is so commonplace on NYC's streets and says how we could fix it: Piles of trash blocking sidewalks and bike lanes are as...
davidyat.es
Adventures in latent space
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.14.0 Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of...
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Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of interviews with users and had a lot of discussions with…
Daniel Marino
My current prototyping environment The other day I shared why I prefer coding prototypes rather than using design apps to create them....
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The other day I shared why I prefer coding prototypes rather than using design apps to create them. My prototyping environment has evolved over the years. I love to hear how others build prototypes, so I thought I’d share where I’m at now. Maybe you’ll find it useful. A single...
wingolog
javascript weakmaps should be iterable Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be...
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Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be iterable, and we should fix it.WeakMap A associates a key with a value, as long as the key is otherwise reachable in a program. (It is an .)WeakMapephemeron table When was added to...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, August 2024 The Ware for August 2024 is shown below. Thanks to Howie M for contributing this ware!
4 months ago
Julia Evans
Rebase: what can go wrong? Hello! While talking with folks about Git, I’ve been seeing a comment over and over to the effect of...
a year ago
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Hello! While talking with folks about Git, I’ve been seeing a comment over and over to the effect of “I hate rebase”. People seemed to feel pretty strongly about this, and I was really surprised because I don’t run into a lot of problems with rebase. I’ve found that if many...
dthompson
Catbird: An experimental game engine for Scheme programmers I've been participating in the Lisp Game Jam for several years now, and the next one is starting...
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I've been participating in the Lisp Game Jam for several years now, and the next one is starting on 10/28, and with each attempt I've been accumulating code that forms something resembling a game engine. I'm now attempting to solidify some of the concepts I've been exploring in...
Patrick Kayongo
Rhythms of Order Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous...
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Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous generations could never have dreamed of. Whether it’s bypassing traffic jams on the outskirts of hills of Kampala, or it’s determining your public transport route from your hotel to your...
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You're not guaranteed a spot on the team I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously...
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I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously not true, and it's usually cynically invoked by management to entice an undue obligation of sacrifice. Implying that you should give it all to The Company -- constantly working...
Tinloof - Blog
Guide to content creation with Sanity We go through how Sanity can be used as a headless CMS to create and manage content.
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Getting alerts about flaky ECS tasks in Slack At work, we use Amazon ECS to run some of our Docker-based services. ECS is a container...
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At work, we use Amazon ECS to run some of our Docker-based services. ECS is a container orchestrator, similar to Kubernetes: we tell it what Docker images we want to run in what configuration, and it stops or starts containers to match. If a container stops unexpectedly, ECS...
The Pragmatic...
Speakers for Amsterdam / Netherlands Tech Events I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the...
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I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the Netherlands, or somewhere in Europe. Unfortunately, rarely do talks – I do one conference per year. However, I asked around in the community about tech professionals who do paid talks...
The Changelog
Recommendations for Tools for Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media I have several TB worth of family photos, videos, and other data. This needs to be backed up — and...
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I have several TB worth of family photos, videos, and other data. This needs to be backed up — and archived. Backups and archives are often thought of as similar. And indeed, they may be done with the same tools at the same time. But the goals differ somewhat: Backups are...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2024 The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top...
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The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top side heatsinks removed. I’ll give the prize to Alex, for the thoughtful details related in the comments. Congrats, email me for your prize! I chose this portion of the miner to...
Confessions of a...
What Happens When Python Starts Up? CPython Runtime Internals CPython JIT Internals, Part 1: What is the Runtime and How is it initialized?
8 months ago
Max Countryman
Breaking Free from Results-Oriented Thinking Magic: The Gathering, poker, and business strategy all have something in common: they're vulnerable...
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Magic: The Gathering, poker, and business strategy all have something in common: they're vulnerable to a cognitive bias known as results-oriented thinking. But to optimize for success, we should avoid this bias and strive to replace it with sound strategy.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
My Pardot landing page starter kit Over the past year, I’ve built an increasing amount of Pardot landing pages in my day to day role. I...
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Over the past year, I’ve built an increasing amount of Pardot landing pages in my day to day role. I think landing pages are a really…
Elad Blog
Early days of AI Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it...
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Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it is worth thinking of this as an entirely new era and discontinuity from the past
Liz Denys
Why I left Instagram Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram...
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Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram went from annoying but benign reminders of capitalism to an utterly dehumanizing nightmare. Suddenly, every third or fourth photo of my friends' latest adventures with their kids,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Circles and Momentum I had not come across this graphic from swyx until recently: I like this reminder. I know for me,...
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I had not come across this graphic from swyx until recently: I like this reminder. I know for me, it’s often too easy to slip into a kind of cynicism that only sees endless stationary circles rather than ones with directional momentum. It reminds me of the visualizations of...
Alex Meub
A Great Bumper Sticker I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago...
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I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago and I couldn’t stop laughing: It’s of course making fun of the Earth Stickers that are so common everywhere (especially in Portland): If you’re curious, the original sticker was...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2024 Last month’s ware was internals from a VCH-1006 passive hydrogen maser. KE5FX has published a great...
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Last month’s ware was internals from a VCH-1006 passive hydrogen maser. KE5FX has published a great write-up about the unit, its history, and how it was repaired. I’ll give the prize to Hessel. The guess given was about as close as anything I could have done myself — a pretty...
Nelson's Weblog
The Sandbaggers I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the...
a year ago
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I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the show name-checks James Bond frequently the soul of it is more of a Le Carré thing. Intelligence as a series of dismal political battles between underpaid civil servants at the home...
alexwlchan
What comes after AWS? James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips ...
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James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips what are the core primitives developers need for building and deploying modern applications? what platform services does the underlying infrastructure need to...
samwho.dev
Dude, where's my main?
over a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES explained AES is the modern standard encryption algorithm, but how does it work? Where does it come from?...
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11 months ago
AES is the modern standard encryption algorithm, but how does it work? Where does it come from? Let’s kick the tyres with a high-level overview of AES internals.
macwright.com
Recently I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element...
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I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element and browser abstractions I was reading Iván Sánchez Ortega’s thoughts on maps4html (at the time of writing, his website is down, so that’s an archive.org link). The post is about a...
Maggie Appleton
Silent Synchronous Reading Sessions
over a year ago
Evan Jones -...
How much does the read/write buffer size matter for socket throughput? The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a...
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The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a simplified model, the time for the system call should be some constant "per-call" time, plus time directly proportional to the number of bytes in the array. That is, the time for each call...
ntietz.com blog
My portable ergonomic setup In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms. It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I...
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In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms. It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I couldn't type, and at the worst I couldn't pick up our kids. That episode spontaneously resolved after a couple of months, but flareups happen occasionally. One guaranteed trigger...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I use Roam Research I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app. Because I take a lot...
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I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app. Because I take a lot of notes, mobile-first note taking apps (e.g. Google’s Keep) are of no interest to me. To me most important thing is: lowest possible friction in adding new notes fast way of...
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How to Find Podcasts That Have Been Deleted TLDR, https://megaphone.spotify.com/ rehosts all mp3s
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free....
over a year ago
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Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering…
Blog System/5
Strings, encodings, NULs and Bazel A story on how strings without NULs are problematic for interop with the OS
a year ago
Irrational...
Poking around OpenAI. I haven’t spent much time playing around with the latest LLMs, and decided to spend some time doing...
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I haven’t spent much time playing around with the latest LLMs, and decided to spend some time doing so. I was particularly curious about the usecase of using embeddings to supplement user prompts with additional, relevant data (e.g. supply the current status of their recent...
Posts on Nikita...
What's that touchscreen in my room? Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the reasons I picked this apartment was age of the building. The construction was finished in 2015, which ensured pretty good thermal isolation for winters as well as small nice things...
Epic Web Dev
The Difference Between Clearing, Resetting, and Restoring Mocks (article) Understand the key differences between mock state management methods: mockClear(), mockReset(), and...
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Understand the key differences between mock state management methods: mockClear(), mockReset(), and mockRestore(). Write clean test states.
TokyoDev
Venture Cafe ![Venture...
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![Venture Cafe](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBZzRsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--ba1e65f25bf034abe1e412b48d5578aafd57c2af/venture_cafe.jpg) [Venture Cafe] had its first event, はたらくモチベーション...
Stephen Wolfram...
Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated… The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a...
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The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a human could do. But then ChatGPT burst onto the scene. And suddenly we realized that an AI could write a passable human-like essay. So now it’s natural to wonder: How far will this...
A Beautiful Site
Converting a URL Object to a Plain Object in JavaScript I needed to convert a URL object to a plain object yesterday. You might have used it before. It's...
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I needed to convert a URL object to a plain object yesterday. You might have used it before. It's pretty handy for working with URLs! const url = new URL('https://example.com/'); console.log(url); // URL {origin: 'https://example.com', protocol: 'https:', username: '',...
macwright.com
On Placemark Yesterday, I announced that I was joining Val.town, but that Placemark lived. And I haven’t really...
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Yesterday, I announced that I was joining Val.town, but that Placemark lived. And I haven’t really given an update on Placemark, the product and business, in a while. Writing about an operating business is a different thing that writing feature announcements or essays about...
Florian Bellmann |...
On picking side-projects Food for thought on how to pick the right side projects and how to manage them effectively.
9 months ago
The Pragmatic...
The state of startup funding I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far,...
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I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far, it’s downwards. What does this mean for tech? My analysis.
Vadim Kravcenko
What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks Question: Answer: The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on...
5 months ago
samwho.dev
The dos and don'ts of large, online communities One of the ways I spend my spare time is moderating the Programming Discussions Discord server. It's...
over a year ago
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One of the ways I spend my spare time is moderating the Programming Discussions Discord server. It's an online community of almost 20,000 people, focussed around helping people with their programming problems through real-time chat. A frequent mistake I see people make in the...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware November, 2022 The Ware for November 2022 is shown below. A grounded guard ring is placed around some of the most...
over a year ago
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The Ware for November 2022 is shown below. A grounded guard ring is placed around some of the most sensitive analog traces; I would love it if someone could teach me why the soldermask is removed for these guard rings. I imagine there must be some motivation to retain this motif...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Reloading a Document (and Preserving Query String Parameters) Using Only HTML tl;dr: an empty string for your link, e.g. <a href="">Reload</a> The other day I was trying to write...
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tl;dr: an empty string for your link, e.g. <a href="">Reload</a> The other day I was trying to write some HTML to give the user the ability to reload the document in its exact state by clicking on a link (same functionality as if they hit CMD + R on their keyboard, or clicked...
alexwlchan
Getting the path to the note I have open in Obsidian I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path...
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I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path to the text file as an argument, for example: $ python clean_up_text.py /path/to/text/file.md This is mostly fine, but finding that path is a bit annoying when I want to run them...
Steve Klabnik
Rescuing Resque (again)
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Fixing a form validation bug in the Epic Stack (tip) Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step guide and find out how they addressed the issue.
Making software...
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible,...
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Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible, while still maintaining the original UI concept. Let's build out a demo example with a simple menu dropdown element. Interesting facts about our final CSS menu: Total weight 121 bytes...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples) Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature...
a year ago
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Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature flag. Testing multiple variants of a new UX? Use…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Slowmad Q&A The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people...
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The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people are generally interested in is my experience of remote work. As I put it [recently](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1154916667606130689):
Marco.org
Overcast 5: Watch, Siri, search, and redesign! I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day. It all started with the watchOS volume...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day. It all started with the watchOS volume widget. You see, Overcast’s previous Apple Watch app really sucked. I did my best with the capabilities of watchOS 1–4, but I couldn’t give people what they really wanted: Standalone podcast...
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Cloud Distros The next step in the evolution of the Cloud is specialized distros.
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: Classification Learning & Decision Trees The simplest form of Classification algorithm
over a year ago
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Notes on Adversarial Interoperability Summarizing thoughts from Seth Godin and Cory Doctorow on Interoperability
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Hyperfocus and hobbies &rarr; One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it affects my cross-stitch. I’m really proud of this one, and I hope you’ll consider reading. Writing for Stories was one of my “bucket list” items while working at Wellcome, and I...
Josh Comeau's blog
Styling Ordered Lists with CSS Counters Styling an ordered list can be surprisingly tricky; there's no way to get at that bullet! In this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Styling an ordered list can be surprisingly tricky; there's no way to get at that bullet! In this tutorial, we'll see a handy trick using CSS counters that lets us style ordered lists without breaking proper semantics.
Alex Meub
Building the DataToaster 3000 Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local...
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3 months ago
Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local computer recycling store. The idea of a computer with the design of a home appliance was really appealing and so was the absurdity of it. It occurred to me that this would be a fun...
Steve Klabnik
Announcing security_release_practice
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
How to Create Custom Editor Blocks with Block Lab Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the block editor, AKA Gutenberg, the new content editor in WordPress 5.0. This post explains how to use it, even if you only know basic HTML.
Joel Gascoigne
The next step in Buffer’s social media journey Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Can you remember where you were seven years...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Can you remember where you were seven years ago? I was in my apartment in Birmingham, UK, coding up the very first version of Buffer as a tool to schedule tweets. So much has changed since then: the Buffer product has
Blog - Bitfield...
Constraints in Go Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a powerful way to build...
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a month ago
Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a powerful way to build polymorphic types and functions constrained by type sets. Let’s geek out.
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The Power of Lampshading How to turn Ignorance into Power
over a year ago
Liz Denys
A meeting of mindsets This spring, I finally had time in the right places in my schedule to incorporate teaching into my...
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over a year ago
This spring, I finally had time in the right places in my schedule to incorporate teaching into my semester. I'm a Learning Assistant (LA) for 6.042: Mathematics for Computer Science, which offers an introduction to discrete mathematics oriented towards computer science and...
macwright.com
Recently Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun...
a year ago
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a year ago
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new, especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from my childhood has stayed with me, and being...
The History of the...
The Website that Predicted AI There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in...
a month ago
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a month ago
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in predictive technology, driven by sophisticated algorithms that provide real-time recommendations. And it was launched in 1995. The post The Website that Predicted AI appeared first...
Maggie Appleton
The Bare Essentials of Greensock
over a year ago
HTMHell
#26 HTMHell special: tasty buttons The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end development: 🔥 the burger button. 🔥 The burger button and his tasty friends (kebab, meatball and bento) usually reveal a list of links when activated. According to our studies, these buttons...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Did I just build a better useCallback? Edit: the technique initially proposed in this post was not concurrent-mode safe. I've added a new...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Edit: the technique initially proposed in this post was not concurrent-mode safe. I've added a new section describing a fix to this problem. Thanks to the readers who noticed it! useCallback has always been one of my least favorite hooks: it does not provide much value over...
Elad Blog
Video and transcript: Fireside chat with Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face We discuss Hugging Face, Open Source, and AI
a year ago
Blog System/5
Code reviews: A success story A tale on how a strict code review process helped ship a bug-free feature
a year ago
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5 essential PostHog apps for new users PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they can do almost anything — and they’re hard to…
Max Countryman
Is Deno Ready for Primetime? Deno is a new JavaScript runtime that offers an excellent set of modern features, including builtin...
a year ago
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a year ago
Deno is a new JavaScript runtime that offers an excellent set of modern features, including builtin TypeScript and a support for existing Node modules. However when it comes to using it in a real application, does it live up to its promises?
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Svelte reactivity — an inside and out guide I've been working with svelte exclusively for a year now, but I still manage to shoot myself in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been working with svelte exclusively for a year now, but I still manage to shoot myself in the foot every now and then when using reactive state. Some of the confusion is due to my prior experience with React, but some points are confusing on their own. Today, I dive into...
Ferd.ca
My favorite Erlang Container 2022/07/09 My favorite Erlang Container Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang...
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over a year ago
2022/07/09 My favorite Erlang Container Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang Program, which showed a very simple universal server written in Erlang: universal_server()->receive{become,F}->F()end. You could then write a small program that could fit this...
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Instant GraphQL with OneGraph Here's a recorded screenshare chat I had with Sean Grove (https://twitter.com/sgrove), Cofounder of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's a recorded screenshare chat I had with Sean Grove (https://twitter.com/sgrove), Cofounder of OneGraph! We swapped out the Next.js API Routes that I manually set up in my livestreaming, to the premade GraphQL integration that OneGraph has with Dev.to. As a bonus, this takes...
Steve Klabnik
I'm quitting Hacker News
over a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is...
a year ago
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a year ago
For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is “lie.” – Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information I wish we could all agree: pie charts should die. I know this is unreasonable. And pie charts are only part of...
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You Can Run Containers on AWS Amplify Now AWS just added the easiest way to deploy long running serverful code alongside a serverless...
over a year ago
Patrick Kayongo
Digital Platforms & The Proselytisation of American Civilisation A few months ago, I was on a Microsoft Teams call. As one sometimes does to distract themselves from...
a year ago
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a year ago
A few months ago, I was on a Microsoft Teams call. As one sometimes does to distract themselves from looking at their own face, I started clicking buttons around the Teams call window. I found an interesting one directing me to a “Speaker Coach”. Clicking on it, The AITM started...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
All About That Button, ’Bout That Button In modern SPAs it’s common to immediately escape baked-in browser behaviors. For example, using...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In modern SPAs it’s common to immediately escape baked-in browser behaviors. For example, using <button> often looks like this: <div> <input type="text" name="q" /> <button type="submit" onClick={(e) => { // Stop the baked-in behavior ...
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Quick Guide to setup your React + Typescript Storybook Design System a no-bs guide to set up your new React and Typescript Design System powered by Storybook!
over a year ago
Making software...
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
HTMHell
Smooth Multi-Page Experiences with Just a Few Lines of CSS by John Allsopp A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
by John Allsopp A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications (and web sites for those who maintain there's a difference), opening up new possibilities for web app architectures, and website experiences. So let’s take a look at View...
Computer Things
Be Suspicious of Success From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems: You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems: You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not find a violation of a liveness property... you should also be suspicious if [it] finds no errors when checking safety properties. This is specifically in the context of...
Blog System/5
Synology DS923+ vs. FreeBSD w/ZFS A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from...
a week ago
Kevin Chen
Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS is supposed to be fast now, right? But even when there was plenty of bandwidth, it still took several seconds to load a page of text. One WebPageTest later, and I found the...
davidyat.es
Review: The Lost Room
a year ago
Blog System/5
A CLI text editor? In my Windows? It’s more likely than you think!
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Healthy naivety * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I often like to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I often like to look back on when I was just getting into startups. I think there is a myth in entrepreneurship which not only do many newcomers believe, but could also be a key reason why many...
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The $100b Bull Case for Temporal Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it *could* be worth $100b
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Transmuting Philosophy into Machinery
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Advanced Promise Coordination: Rate Limiting In the previous post we learnt to serialize and concurrecy-limit promise-based operations in js....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In the previous post we learnt to serialize and concurrecy-limit promise-based operations in js. This time we dive further and handle rate limiting. What Exactly to Rate Limit Let's get terminological matters out of the way first. Promises represent operations that last a certain...
Stephen Wolfram...
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
Steve Klabnik
Ditching Google Chat with XMPP
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Icon Finder: an awesome search engine for icons I came across a really awesome icon resource awhile back, but never got a chance to write anything...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I came across a really awesome icon resource awhile back, but never got a chance to write anything about it. If you're a web designer or developer who always has use for quality icons — especially ones with GPL or similar licenses — this is the website for you. It's essentially a...
Darek Kay
Style your RSS feed RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it's still a thriving protocol, especially among tech...
a year ago
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a year ago
RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it's still a thriving protocol, especially among tech users. However, many people do not know what RSS feeds are or how to use them. Most browsers render RSS as raw XML files, which doesn't help users understand what it's all about: In...