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Getting duplicate ids in an HTML document I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task,...
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I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task, but unfortunately, I didn't find anything out there that fit the bill. I did find a couple functions that returned the duplicates, but they didn't include the first occurrence (I...
Eric Bailey
Formative posts Blogs are good at communicating what you’re thinking about a specific topic, but not so great at the...
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a year ago
Blogs are good at communicating what you’re thinking about a specific topic, but not so great at the larger framework of how someone came to be in the headspace that lead to the posts they share. Because of that, I’ve set up a formative posts page. This page is a list of blog...
MMapped blog
If composers were hackers
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
JIT selection from independent streams: An alternative to the “big backlog” of work We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of...
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We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of the future, however this confuses “prioritization” with “work-planning,” and forces the comparison of un-comparable things. Here’s how to solve those problems.
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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
David Crawshaw
Good business "Bill and I were actually talking about what kind of investments GV was looking to make. He stressed...
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"Bill and I were actually talking about what kind of investments GV was looking to make. He stressed that GV was looking to invest in businesses that were actually good businesses. As a counterexample, he brought up Twitter, which at the time he considered to be a 'good...
Liz Denys
Bauhaus spoon rest, 2024 Bauhaus design / negative space / boundaries that are clear on paper
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Favorite New Podcasts in 2020 An update to my favorite podcasts list with the ones I have found this year
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
What we've learned about talking to users This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers...
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This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products by learning…
MMapped blog
Fungible tokens: payment flows
over a year ago
Making software...
Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my...
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Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my Eero mesh network setup and replaced it with two Mango Mini Travel Routers (GL-MT300N-V2). There were some obvious reasons to make this switch but I was initially unsure how the...
37signals Dev
Demo of page refreshes with morphing We published a demo showing how Page Refreshes with morphing work in Turbo 8: Comparing code...
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We published a demo showing how Page Refreshes with morphing work in Turbo 8: Comparing code helps a lot in software discussions, so I thought it would be valuable to show how the new feature compares to Turbo stream actions for performing partial updates and broadcasts....
Blog - Bitfield...
If you need the money, don't take the job Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're...
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a year ago
Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll face as a newly independent worker.
Sometimes It Works...
My Wild Security Head-Fiction My Wild Security Head-Fiction ¶My Wild Security Head-Fiction I’m not a security expert. I...
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My Wild Security Head-Fiction ¶My Wild Security Head-Fiction I’m not a security expert. I confidently believe I don’t have the kind of mind it takes to ‘always expect the worst’. I couldn’t be a threat analyst, defence strategist or CIA agent because I think you need a drastic...
the singularity is...
A Place for Me Have all the jobs been fake for years? Read this, a NASA critique from 1992. Basically society is...
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Have all the jobs been fake for years? Read this, a NASA critique from 1992. Basically society is run by useless people making work for other useless people so that together they can all alleviate their deep concern about not having a place in society. Elon has a bigger tent of...
Eric Bailey
Yes, accessibility is also a backend concern There is a prevailing notion in web development that the frontend—the discipline of creating what...
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There is a prevailing notion in web development that the frontend—the discipline of creating what someone can see and do on a website or web app—is the only place you need to consider accessibility. This simply isn’t true. Accessibility is a holistic practice that touches every...
Alice GG
5 kubectl plugins to make your life easier I have been using Kubernetes for five years, but only very recently started using plugins to enhance...
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I have been using Kubernetes for five years, but only very recently started using plugins to enhance my kubectl commands. I will show you five plugins that help me avoid repetitive tasks, make cluster administration simpler, and incident response less stressful. All the plugins...
bt RSS Feed
Introducing Notez Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
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Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it’s nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Browser Defaults We Throw Away Stefan Judis on Twitter: I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a...
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Stefan Judis on Twitter: I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a JS approach that includes writing event.preventDefault all the time is kinda off. The browser defaults are great, and yet we're rollin' our own for years now. 🤔 I’ve been thinking...
Patrick Kayongo
Substack vs Africa The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging...
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11 months ago
The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging and online writing was dead, superseded by YouTube, Substack came along and solved the problems of discovery and monetisation. Their feed and recommendations have allowed many to...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2022 / Berlin] Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
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Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
David Crawshaw
2014-05-14 ti.arc.nasa.gov/news/ladee-sband-evolved-antenna/
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Hedge Words Affirm Creative, Imaginative Thinking Mandy’s note piqued my interest so much, I started reading Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz. So far, I...
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Mandy’s note piqued my interest so much, I started reading Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz. So far, I love it! (I hope to write more about it once I’ve finished, but I’m afraid I won’t because the whole book is underlined in red pencil and I wouldn’t know where to start.) As...
Epic Web Dev
The Power of Principles in Web Development Decision-Making (article) Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making,...
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4 months ago
Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making, boost your career, and help you build better software.
Yale E360
On Estimates, Time, and Evidence Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this...
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Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this all the time with clients - they have real business needs to know how long something will take and what the risks are with any given project. So, we are asked to give estimates of...
Evan Jones -...
Postgres large JSON value query performance Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and...
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Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 kiB, due to how...
Basta’s Notes
Microwaves piss me off If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about...
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If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about microwaves.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Did you know AI is answering our community questions? AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that...
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AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that try to replace a human in a product support context…
Confessions of a...
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and...
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How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
macwright.com
On Web Components God, it’s another post about Web Components and stuff, who am I to write this, who are you to read...
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God, it’s another post about Web Components and stuff, who am I to write this, who are you to read it Carlana Johnson’s “Alternate Futures for Web Components” had me nodding all the way. There’s just this assumption that now that React is potentially on its way out (after a...
Yale E360
I'm hopeful but wary of "empathic" AI A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume. I was primed to be...
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A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume. I was primed to be skeptical, except that I trust this friend to have a somewhat balanced perspective on this topic. He'd talked to some people there and read their site and generally felt a good vibe...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
4 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
Purple PCBs for Keybird69 I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I was at school 30 years ago,...
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I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I was at school 30 years ago, and a lot has changed since then! So my aim for Keybird69’s PCB was to learn my way around the design, manufacturing, and assembly process. microcontroller other components key...
bunnie's blog
A 2-Axis, Multihead Light Positioner This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
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This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the focus stage, light source, and methodology used to...
Maggie Appleton
GreenSock Animations with React Hooks How to use the Greensock animation library inside React using React hooks
over a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
ChatGPT == Google News? ChatGPT ingesting content produced by others and reproducing it, wholly, or in-part as a result of...
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ChatGPT ingesting content produced by others and reproducing it, wholly, or in-part as a result of the model, is almost exactly the same like Google ingesting news and presenting it on the search results page. Actually, it’s worse, because it gives absolutely no attribution to...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note April 2023: Ploma Rendering Experiments Prototyping a few uses of dynamic ink using Dan Amelang and Evelyn Eastmond’s Ploma as the renderer.
over a year ago
Computer Things
State and time are the same thing Time is state Imagine I put an ordinary ticking quartz clock in an empty room. I walk in, and ten...
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Time is state Imagine I put an ordinary ticking quartz clock in an empty room. I walk in, and ten minutes later I walk out with two photograph prints.1 In the 1st one, the second hand is pointing at the top of the clock, in the 2nd it's pointing at the bottom. Are these two...
Making software...
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it's relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
David Heinemeier...
Linux as the new developer default at 37signals For over twenty years, the Mac was the default at 37signals. For designers, programmers, support,...
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For over twenty years, the Mac was the default at 37signals. For designers, programmers, support, and everyone else. That mono culture had some clear advantages, like being able to run Kandji and macOS-specific setup scripts. But it certainly also had its disadvantages, like...
alexwlchan
Changing the macOS accent colour without System Preferences In System Preferences, you can change the accent colour of your Mac: This affects...
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over a year ago
In System Preferences, you can change the accent colour of your Mac: This affects colours throughout your Mac’s user interface, including buttons, menus, and tickboxes. When you pick a new colour, it updates everywhere, immediately. I want to write some automations...
Daniel Marino
Install Mcrypt PHP Extension on OSX Yosemite After updating Statamic to 1.10.2, I started getting Mcrypt errors. After some Googling, I found...
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After updating Statamic to 1.10.2, I started getting Mcrypt errors. After some Googling, I found some complicated fixes. After some noodling around, here’s a simple way to fix it with Homebrew: First, figure out which version of PHP you’re running. You can do this by opening up...
Renegade Otter
I am not your Cloud person Jack of all clouds In an episode of Screaming in the Cloud podcast, Corey Quinn, a cloud services...
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Jack of all clouds In an episode of Screaming in the Cloud podcast, Corey Quinn, a cloud services expert, mentioned a running prank that he sometimes pulls on Amazon engineers: Quinn inserts a fictional AWS service name into the conversation, with the AWS person not batting an...
Irrational...
Bridging theory and practice in engineering strategy. Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy actually exists within any...
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Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy actually exists within any engineering organizations. I imagine that they, reading through the steps to build engineering strategy, or the strategy for navigating private equity ownership, are not impressed....
A Smart Bear
How many things should there be? (Hint: Not 10) If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list...
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If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list probably doesn't have the correct number of things.
Words and Buttons...
Simple image vectorization Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out...
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Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out of it. The algorithm describes shows how bilinear interpolation, polynomial approximation, differential analysis, and iterative algorithms work together to solve a practical...
Making software...
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a "downgrade" in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
bt RSS Feed
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It’s been a while since I’ve written anything on this blog,...
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ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It’s been a while since I’ve written anything on this blog, but for good reason - I’ve been working on a handful of side projects. I plan to drip-feed release these projects over time, but for today I’m announcing ThriftyName. What is...
Vadim Kravcenko
Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers...
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Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers that they neglect actually running their […] The post Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Grant Slatton
Internet Fiction Collection of amateur stories — mainly sci-fi — that I like
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Who's lying? Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because...
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Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies.
tonsky.me
Talk: Clj-reload: A smarter way to reload code @ In Clojure, we all love the REPL. We love playing with our code and seeing results applied live...
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a year ago
In Clojure, we all love the REPL. We love playing with our code and seeing results applied live without ever restarting the app. But in any project, there comes a time when your state becomes more complex than a simple set of functions. Evaluating the buffer does not...
David Heinemeier...
Apple actually lost a court case for once, but they refuse to comply in good faith Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app...
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Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app developers the right to link to their own websites. And it seems like Apple had been preparing for this outcome, because immediately thereafter, Apple revealed an elaborate bad-faith...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Temporal - the iPhone of System Design Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it...
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Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it is eating the world.
David Gerrells
is there light at the end of the tunnel Is there light at the end of the tunnel? I say yes...or at least sometimes depending on how you look...
over a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Why you can't meditate You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special cushion. But you can start to...
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You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special cushion. But you can start to gently train your brain to stop craving distraction and overstimulation. In this excerpt from Monk Mode, we'll see how.
Tony Finch's blog
libc delenda est Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C library are terrible, especially if...
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Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C library are terrible, especially if you are coding on Windows - good fun if you like staring into the abyss. He followed up with let’s write a setjmp which is fun in a more positive way. I was also pleased to learn...
alexwlchan
Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools...
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Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools to take screenshots, and I love them as a way to take quick snapshots and skim the history of a site, but bitmap images aren’t a great archival representation of a website. What...
bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
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a year ago
This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
The Changelog
Fast, Ordered Unixy Queues over NNCP and Syncthing with Filespooler It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces...
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It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces ordered execution of jobs that may arrive out of order. After writing this for the nth time in bash, I decided it was time to do it properly. But first, a word on the why of it all....
The Pragmatic...
An educational side project What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand...
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What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand out when looking for a new job? Analysis of an Uber simulation app, built from scratch.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fibonacci Goals A system for goalsetting.
over a year ago
blag
Recurse Center Day 24: Hacking Go compiler to add a new keyword I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var
over a year ago
The Changelog
How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a...
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For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins. This is klunky, and has a number of drawbacks (dependency on a cloud service and Internet among them). I decided it was time to upgrade, so I...
macwright.com
Placemark is going open source and shutting down also on placemark.io/blog The company and product side of Placemark didn’t work out. Some fantastic,...
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also on placemark.io/blog The company and product side of Placemark didn’t work out. Some fantastic, friendly people used it, but I couldn’t find a way to make it work as a sustainable bootstrapped startup. Building it was incredibly fun. Failing to find success and...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Racy git magic Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement. And I think there is one known race: the...
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Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement. And I think there is one known race: the index mtime itself is not race-free. – Linus Torvalds, Re:git bugs, 2008 A well-known race condition skulks through git’s plumbing. And I can demo it via a git magic trick 🪄1 $ tree...
Marco.org
Low Power Mode on the Mac Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But...
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over a year ago
Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But sometimes you lose that lottery, as I did on my latest 8-hour daytime flight. Apple’s “Up to 10 hours” claim doesn’t apply to my work,1 which is usually a mix of Xcode, web browsing, and...
Coding Horror
Electric Geek Transportation Systems I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I...
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over a year ago
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the first new car I ever bought) was the quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then we bought a VW station wagon
James Vaughan's blog
Thoughts on Qutebrowser
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
A case study in being excellent: Divvy
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
A message from the Captain of the S.S. Layoff Indeed, there's plenty to go around, thanks largely to all of you. But the fastest way to make the...
a year ago
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Indeed, there's plenty to go around, thanks largely to all of you. But the fastest way to make the numbers better is to stop feeding and sheltering people and their families. Nothing personal.
Ruud van Asseldonk
A language for designing slides
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Breaking Barbarian This week in a [Svelte Radio recording](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1555596996744028160),...
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This week in a [Svelte Radio recording](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1555596996744028160), @rich-harris commented that something I said was "uniquely swyx": an offhand observation that "we are all professional streamers now" [^1]. I responded that I've been calling this...
David Heinemeier...
HEY is finally for sale on the iPhone! Our battle with Apple over their gangster attempt to extort 30% of our HEY revenues was one of the...
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Our battle with Apple over their gangster attempt to extort 30% of our HEY revenues was one of the defining moments of my career. It was the kind of test that calls you to account for what you believe and asks what you're willing to risk to see it through. Well, we risked...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Versioned Docs in 30 Seconds with Amplify Console's Branch Subdomains Amplify Console just got the ability to create a custom subdomain for every new branch. This makes...
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Hamburger Menu Animation (tip) Learn how to create an engaging hamburger menu animation with Tailwind CSS, improving user...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn how to create an engaging hamburger menu animation with Tailwind CSS, improving user experience and adding a touch of fun flair.
Julia Evans
Introducing "Implement DNS in a Weekend" Hello! I’m excited to announce a project I’ve been working on for a long time: a free guide to...
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over a year ago
Hello! I’m excited to announce a project I’ve been working on for a long time: a free guide to implementing your own DNS resolver in a weekend. The whole thing is about 200 lines of Python, including implementing all of the binary DNS parsing from scratch. Here’s the...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Paper Review: “Did you miss my comments or what?” Toxicity in Open Source Discussions On entitlement, toxicity, and burnout in Open Source. [Toxicity is] rude, disrespectful, or...
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On entitlement, toxicity, and burnout in Open Source. [Toxicity is] rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable language that is likely to make someone leave a discussion. – Google, Project Jigsaw Thu, 19 Aug 2021 @EmilyKager & @wardellbagby@androiddev.social I didn’t expect to learn...
Joel Gascoigne
How we're trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a while now”. It’s about 3.5 years
Steve Klabnik
I invented hypermedia APIs by accident
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Not disruptive, and proud of it I remember "disruptive" when it was called a "paradigm shift." You should be worrying more about...
a year ago
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I remember "disruptive" when it was called a "paradigm shift." You should be worrying more about making something people want to buy, and less about disrupting everything.
Ferd.ca
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents 2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running...
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2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running an incident analysis in Jeli, and pointed out that the overall process was a big drag on their energy level, that it was hard to do, even if the final result was useful. They were...
Maggie Appleton
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI An exploration of the problems and possible futures of flooding the web with generative AI content
over a year ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The Great Scrape Scraper bots are destroying the commons to feed the machine
3 months ago
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 10 · Beyond prose We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
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We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
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Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
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Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it’s core seems so simple - yet is...
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Submit to the Quirks of HTML by Felix Hessenberger It was on a cold February evening. I had been working on a client project,...
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by Felix Hessenberger It was on a cold February evening. I had been working on a client project, building an order item list—nothing out of the ordinary. To adjust an item’s quantity, the user would open a popup form with a single input field, type a number, and hit...
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap 2023: Rise of AI We analyze growth in unicorn market cap by region. We also compare # of Barry's Bootcamps to # of...
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We analyze growth in unicorn market cap by region. We also compare # of Barry's Bootcamps to # of unicorns for key cities.
Acko.net
React - The Missing Parts Question the rules for fun and profit One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a...
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Question the rules for fun and profit One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a popular library's patterns is that you can experiment with all sorts of changes. In my case, I have a React-clone, Live, which includes all the familiar basics: props, state and...
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Simple Does Not Mean Ugly Simple Does Not Mean Ugly 2019-03-26 I see new blog posts popping up now and again advocating for...
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Simple Does Not Mean Ugly 2019-03-26 I see new blog posts popping up now and again advocating for designers to keep their products as simple as possible - and I couldn’t agree more. A lot of designers tend to think they need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to UI concepts that...
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Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer 2022-12-08 Introduction I’ve made the switch...
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Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer 2022-12-08 Introduction I’ve made the switch to Alpine Linux as my main laptop/desktop hybrid workstation and I love it - warts and all. This post will follow my process building my Alpine Linux “installer” I used for this...
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Bright & Early Podcast with Brian Rhea I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above,...
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I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above, and see more details here.
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Detecting offensive words with Mistral AI 7B When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator, I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words...
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When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator, I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words coming up in the output displayed to users. To solve this problem, I needed a way to detect and filter them out automatically. Do you really need an LLM for that? The problem of...
alexwlchan
*Spy for Spy*, at Riverside Studios Last night I went to see the second preview of Spy For Spy, which I very much enjoyed. It’s a...
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Last night I went to see the second preview of Spy For Spy, which I very much enjoyed. It’s a romance story with a clever narrative twist – it’s being told in the wrong order. Aside from the prologue and epilogue, the show is split into six scenes from the Molly and Sarah’s...
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Netlify Year One - 360 Review I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year...
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I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) Recap. That post was entirely me looking back at myself. It's helpful to see what others said about me at my review.
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Becoming American
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Don't use marked With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their...
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With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their obligation to maintain compatibility, I just have to put it out there: if you have a new JavaScript/TypeScript project and you need to parse or render Markdown, why are you using...
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Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference! She's...
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Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference! She's an anthropologist by training, and I'm a software engineer. How'd we wind up there? The short version is I asked her what I thought was an interesting question, and she thought it...
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Business cards VistaPrint delivered 1,000 “A Beautiful Site” business cards the other day, and I couldn't resist...
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VistaPrint delivered 1,000 “A Beautiful Site” business cards the other day, and I couldn't resist playing with them. I decided to go conservative with the design, relying a bit on curiosity to draw attention to the business. Nevertheless, I am pleased with the way they turned...
Joel Gascoigne
What is failure for you? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One thing I...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One thing I realised over the holiday period is that my definition of failure in a couple of things had changed considerably since the year before. In particular, in the year of 2012 I built up...
David Heinemeier...
Capture less than you create I beam with pride when I see companies like Shopify, GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, Instacart, Procore,...
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I beam with pride when I see companies like Shopify, GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, Instacart, Procore, Doximity, Coinbase, and others claim billion-dollar valuations from work done with Rails. It's beyond satisfying to see this much value created with a web framework I've spent the...
Cognitive...
Built with Dolphin I started to understand that a lot of people are using and enjoying Dolphin - so I decided to put a...
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I started to understand that a lot of people are using and enjoying Dolphin - so I decided to put a list here of products or projects that use Dolphin. If you would like to be listed here please reach out to me and I'll add...
Joel Gascoigne
Snowmelt meetings “When spring comes, snow melts first at the periphery, because that is where it is most exposed” -...
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“When spring comes, snow melts first at the periphery, because that is where it is most exposed” - Andy Grove This quote comes from Andy Grove, Intel’s former CEO, and which I was reminded of in the most recent book I finished reading, Seeing Around Corners
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How to argue for something without any scientific evidence Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
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Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes to Self on Mastodon Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to...
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Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to articulate what I do understand in a way that helps me better understand the differences — and similarities — between Twitter and Mastodon, especially when it comes to owning more of...
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Go is 80/20 language Go is the most hated programming language. Compared to other languages, it provides 80% of utility...
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Go is the most hated programming language. Compared to other languages, it provides 80% of utility with 20% of complexity. The hate comes from people who want 81% of utility, or 85% or 97%. As Rob Pike said, no one denies that 87% of utility provides more utility than 80%. The...
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A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Side Street Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed another blanket that follows a similar construction as the Library Blanket,...
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Joelle Hoverson designed another blanket that follows a similar construction as the Library Blanket, so I figured I'd make another color picking tool for the new Side Street Blanket. The varied blocks in this blanket are also made by holding different pairs of yarns together, so...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: As concrete as possible programming How far can we push programming away from symbol manipulation and into the act of drawing?
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Double your productivity without more work or stress People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this...
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People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.
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New Loose Leaf Security series: Safely surfing the web Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about safely browsing the web: The...
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Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about safely browsing the web: The history of the Web and an introduction to browser security The web can be a scary place - but once you get to know it a little better, it doesn't feel as scary. Liz and Geoffrey go...
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Retreating to Safety Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on...
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Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on stage at John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live WWDC event and giving an open, human, honest interview to a somewhat jaded community. I wrote this in response: Both Apple and Phil Schiller...
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Short note: Disavowing Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss I am the original author of the browser extension Millennials to Snake People. The code that powers...
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I am the original author of the browser extension Millennials to Snake People. The code that powers this extension is public and transparent. There is another browser extension called “Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss”. It is made by the highly suspicious Firefox user...
alexwlchan
Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2 A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2. We’d started seeing issues in our...
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A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2. We’d started seeing issues in our Elastic cluster at work, and I was able to isolate the issue in a small, reproducible test case. I shared my code with Elastic engineers, and that helped them identify and fix the...
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How To Learn In Private Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn...
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Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn In Public. The majority of the time you are still learning in private. Here are some thoughts on how to do it well.
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Useful reusable functions I use in (almost) every Meteor application Some core functions I find myself reusing in almost every Meteor.js application I build.
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Enabling zero downtime data migrations for self-hosted users In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product...
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In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product evolves, your schemas evolve too, and you need…
Alex Meub
About the Apple Captive Network Assistant Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site...
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Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site for a better resource on the Captive Network Assistant. If you’re a mac user, you likely have seen a strange popup window appear on your computer when you try to connect to the...
Eric Bailey
Equifax Data Breach, Credit Freezes, and Beholden Design Ever been frustrated because a movie theater plays advertisements before the trailers even start?...
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over a year ago
Ever been frustrated because a movie theater plays advertisements before the trailers even start? This is a kind of experience I call “Beholden Design.” Full of Dark Patterns and pain, Beholden Design is the evil, goatee-wearing twin of Universal Design. It forces people to...
Joel Gascoigne
The choices we make when we build startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’ve recently...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’ve recently reached the point with Buffer where I’ve started to think about a lot of key higher level choices. As a CEO these can be difficult decisions to make. I’ve been taking time to...
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How rollup-plugin-svelte Works Svelte is often thought of as a compiler. But really it is a compiler within a bundler.
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Irrational...
A brief rant on converging compliance regimes. Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has...
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Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has touched on reconciling between product and compliance goals, and over that time I’ve developed something of a pet theory on the evolution of compliance over the next five to ten years:...
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library-mcp: working with Markdown knowledge bases At work, we’ve been building agentic workflows to support our internal Delivery team on various...
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At work, we’ve been building agentic workflows to support our internal Delivery team on various accounting, cash reconciliation, and operational tasks. To better guide that project, I wrote my own simple workflow tool as a learning project in January. Since then, the Model...
alexwlchan
Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a...
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I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a Linux server running Caddy. (Yes, the Wi-Fi on European trains is reliable enough to make that possible, even pleasant.) Hopefully nobody noticed! When I flipped the DNS records to...
Grant Slatton
AI software I'm surprised doesn't exist yet Please make it
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[Republishing] Redundant stories about redundancy Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
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Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
37signals Dev
A vanilla Rails stack is plenty If you have the luxury of starting a new Rails app today, here’s our recommendation: go...
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If you have the luxury of starting a new Rails app today, here’s our recommendation: go vanilla. Fight hard before adding Ruby dependencies. Keep that Gemfile that Rails generates as close to the original one as possible. Fight even harder before adding Javascript dependencies....
Alex Meub
A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is...
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I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is one of the reasons I ride my bike to work). I was curious to learn more about it. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, Portland parking ticket data is available to anyone who...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Consistent Navigation Across My Inconsistent Websites Anything I ship to my personal domain jim-nielsen.com is made using IDD: impulse driven...
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Anything I ship to my personal domain jim-nielsen.com is made using IDD: impulse driven development. I can convince myself that just about anything is a good idea at the time. But in retrospect my rationales are quite often specious. At one point in the past, I decided that I...
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 005: Local-First Conf, Ink Selection with Flux A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection...
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First Look at AWS Amplify Flutter (Developer Preview) AWS Amplify launched a Flutter Integration, so I thought I would record a quick video and blogpost
over a year ago
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100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere Simple grab and go upgrade to the base user agent stylesheet to make for readable sites
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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...
David Heinemeier...
Patek levels of finishing We’re in the final phase of getting the first ONCE product out the door. As with any new...
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a year ago
We’re in the final phase of getting the first ONCE product out the door. As with any new development, there are a million little details we need to nail for a successful launch that’s up to our standards. That’s usually where the temptation to cut corners on internal quality...
alexwlchan
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
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Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Is It JavaScript? OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest...
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OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest of the day debugging an electron issue — @jonkuperman.com on BlueSky “It’s Just JavaScript!” is probably a phrase you’ve heard before. I’ve used it myself a number of times. It...
Joel Gascoigne
The Anti-Todo List * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For some time,...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For some time, I’ve gradually realised that my day is not only occupied by tasks from my todo list. Often, there are lots of other tasks which deserve time in my day just as much as those I have
Yale E360
A few weird ways of displaying git hashes I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement. While talking...
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I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement. While talking about why hashes are often represented in hexademical, the author states (emphasis mine): There are other ways to encode binary data for human consumption, but the two most widely...
Epic Web Dev
Why you should probably be using SQLite
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Blog System/5
Bazel interview at Software Engineering Daily A detailed summary of the many topics we discussed during this fun interview
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Interdisciplinary Website Maker Paul Ford has a great article at Wired about his own experience as an English major working in tech....
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Paul Ford has a great article at Wired about his own experience as an English major working in tech. While I myself am not an English major (more on that below) his desire to be interdisciplinary parallels my own. I began to realize I was that most horrifying of things:...
alexwlchan
My (tiny) contribution to Rust 1.64 A couple of months ago, I was writing some Rust, and the compiler spat out an error: error[E0412]:...
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over a year ago
A couple of months ago, I was writing some Rust, and the compiler spat out an error: error[E0412]: cannot find type `Boolean` in this scope --> src/fs_helpers.rs:29:33 | 29 | pub fn is_ds_store(p: &Path) -> Boolean | ^^^^^^^ not found in...
Tinloof - Blog
How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 2) This series of articles is made out of two parts: In the first part, we built the stopwatch's user...
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over a year ago
This series of articles is made out of two parts: In the first part, we built the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS. In this second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
David Heinemeier...
Be less precious The essence of the book Radical Candor is the concept of ruinous empathy. That by trying your best...
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The essence of the book Radical Candor is the concept of ruinous empathy. That by trying your best to couch employee performance feedback in overly gentle language, you end up confusing the message, and cheating the recipient out of the clarity they desperately need to improve –...
Steve Klabnik
I'm writing "Rails 4 in Action"!
over a year ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Behind the syntax: let and const variables Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more...
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Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more colloquially known as ES6 – was released…
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My first attempts with Unity My first attempts with Unity
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Joel Gascoigne
Treat it as finished * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most important differences for me personally in how I’ve run my current startup compared to the last one I founded has been how I treat the product at each stage of the process. With...
Jake Zimmerman
What if typing on phones was fast?
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David Heinemeier...
The price of managed cloud services One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good...
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One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's...
Vadim Kravcenko
Database Migrations I consider database migrations one of the most annoying problems to deal with during a software...
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I consider database migrations one of the most annoying problems to deal with during a software engineer’s life. Not only […] The post Database Migrations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Josh Collinsworth
Breaking changes in SvelteKit, August 2022 SvelteKit introduced breaking changes to its routing and data loading in August 2022. Learn how to...
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SvelteKit introduced breaking changes to its routing and data loading in August 2022. Learn how to convert from the old way of doing things to the new.
Grant Slatton
Nobody Cares A rant about caring
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macwright.com
I wish there was a better default for database IDs by Every database ID scheme that I’ve used has had pretty serious downsides, and I wish there was a...
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a year ago
Every database ID scheme that I’ve used has had pretty serious downsides, and I wish there was a better option. The perfect ID would: Be friendly to distributed systems - multiple servers should be able to generate non-overlapping IDs at the same time. Even clients should be able...
A Beautiful Site
Postleaf: reimagined It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging...
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It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging platform. The initial version was well-received, landing an article on TechCrunch and making its way to #1 for the day on Product Hunt. (Thank you so much, everyone!) Today, I'm...
Basta’s Notes
Things nobody taught me about money When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different...
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over a year ago
When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different education from previous generations. I grew up under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind policies. Classes teaching important life skills like home economics and...
A Beautiful Site
The HTML5 download attribute Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't...
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Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't have to do that anymore. The HTML5 download attribute is intended to tell the browser that a certain link should force a certain file to download, optionally with a certain name...
bt RSS Feed
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side...
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Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side project (a marketing site / blog for an upcoming UX book I’m writing, but I have nothing to promote yet - sorry) and found myself circling around different static site generators...
Irrational...
Notes on The Crux The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing...
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The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing many of the same core ideas but in a more readable format, and a clearer target to take down: the incoherent outputs of process and goal-driven strategy. Recently, I’ve been looking...
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven 2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
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2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months. It’s also...
HTMHell
#3 image-buttons Bad code <img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)"> <img src="/images/delete.gif"...
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Bad code <img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)"> <img src="/images/delete.gif" onclick="openDeleteDialog(123)"> Issues and how to fix them The purpose of the img element is to display images, not to execute JavaScript. A click event on a img triggers only on...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” That’s a quote from Cindy Li — “We're all just temporarily abled”. I first heard it in Sarah’s...
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That’s a quote from Cindy Li — “We're all just temporarily abled”. I first heard it in Sarah’s course and it’s been on repeat in my mind ever since June 6th. June 6th I was on vacation at the beach with my family and tried something that, looking back now, maybe I’m too old for....
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 010: Open-sourcing Keyhive, filtering Ambsheets, and Sketchpad explorations Some updates from our ongoing work on local-first auth, a new post from our Ambsheets project about...
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Some updates from our ongoing work on local-first auth, a new post from our Ambsheets project about filtering scenarios in a spreadsheet, and some explorations of the historic Sketchpad project for constraint-based drawing.
Blog System/5
EndBASIC 0.11 is here Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built...
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The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
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Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos...
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I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos Library. I don’t really want to pay for the next iCloud storage tier – I’d be tripling my bill, but I’d barely use the extra space. (My library grows pretty slowly – I’ve only added ~6GB of...
A Beautiful Site
Parsing URLs in JavaScript There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John...
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There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John Long over on GitHub. This technique works great, but the resulting search property will be a raw query string. This isn't very useful if you need to access certain variables in said...
Making software...
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line 2022-09-20 Installing custom fonts is a...
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Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line 2022-09-20 Installing custom fonts is a fairly streamlined feature on operating systems like MacOS and Windows. Linux, on the other hand, struggles to make this workflow easy for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get...
A small freedom area...
GCC undefined behaviors are getting wild Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions after weeks of struggle, I...
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Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions after weeks of struggle, I was minding my own business having fun writing integer arithmetic code. Life was good, when suddenly… zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped). That code wasn't messing with memory much...
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...
Steve Klabnik
Updating Buck
over a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
Lessons in DDD from building an e-commerce platform In a recent conversation with some colleagues, we were talking about how startups make the trade-off...
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In a recent conversation with some colleagues, we were talking about how startups make the trade-off between design, domain-driven specifically, in favor of speed. They intentionally take on debt, technical and otherwise, to move faster. I wasn’t in favour of employing DDD in a...
Joel Gascoigne
Change at Buffer: The next phase, and why our co-founder and our CTO are moving on > Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
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> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog [https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/]. We’ve always done things differently at Buffer. For me, this has always come from a natural desire to question things. Why base your company and team in a single location? Why is...
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React Single File Components Are Here React has long eschewed convention in favor of the extreme flexibility of JS. It is time for the...
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React has long eschewed convention in favor of the extreme flexibility of JS. It is time for the next level in React authorship formats.
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Getting Senpai To Notice You How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting...
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How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting the leaders of that field to at least read your writing and know your name.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Knowledge Laundering I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took...
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I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took notes on — and this excerpt talking about large language models (LLMs) stood out to me: Why give somebody credit for the lines of code you’ve adapted for your own project when you...
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Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
over a year ago
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Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving...
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over a year ago
My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider mandatory:
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blogging & Listening When you read a great blog post, the feeling you often get is: “I already knew this, I just hadn’t...
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When you read a great blog post, the feeling you often get is: “I already knew this, I just hadn’t been able to express it!” In this sense, writing a great blog post is about listening. If you’re listening — to others, your coworkers, the people you follow, your own experiences,...
Quentin Santos
Espressif’s Automatic Reset In previous articles, we saw how to use “real” UART, and looked into the trick used by Arduino to...
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2 months ago
In previous articles, we saw how to use “real” UART, and looked into the trick used by Arduino to automatically reset boards when uploading firmware. Today, we’ll look into how Espressif does something similar, using even more tricks. “Real” UART on the Saola As usual, let’s...
Ink & Switch
Inkbase: Programmable Ink What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Shirred eggs Ramekins aren't just for advanced culinary creations like soufflés and crème brûlées. But as with...
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over a year ago
Ramekins aren't just for advanced culinary creations like soufflés and crème brûlées. But as with mathematical proofs, some of the most elegant foods you can prepare in a ramekin are the simplest. Enter the shirred egg. Don't be intimidated by the word "shirred"; it's just the...
Computer Things
Planning vs Model Checking New blogpost! Planner programming blows my mind, Patreon here. Next essay out should be the graph...
a year ago
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a year 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...
Maggie Appleton
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
over a year ago
Making software...
Text Align: Justify Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS,...
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Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS, even among those just starting out with the language. Values such as center, left and right are used often with this property, but a more forgotten option is justify. What does...
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How we rebranded PostHog in four weeks - a postmortem We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a...
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We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a month. This sounds like an incredible feat of…
Irrational...
How to effectively refine engineering strategy. In Jim Collins’ Great by Choice, he develops the concept of Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs. His...
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In Jim Collins’ Great by Choice, he develops the concept of Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs. His premise is that you should cheaply test new ideas before fully committing to them. Your organization can only afford firing a small number of cannonballs, but it can bankroll far more...
alexwlchan
Creating a Python dictionary with multiple, equivalent keys In my previous post, I was creating groups of students, and I wanted to track how many times...
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In my previous post, I was creating groups of students, and I wanted to track how many times students had worked together. I created a nested dictionary to track the pairs: pairs = { 'Alice': {'Bryony': 3, 'Caroline': 1, 'Danielle': 0, …}, 'Bryony': {'Alice': 3, 'Caroline':...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Showing UI on mouse move, in Svelte 5 In my note taking application Edna I’ve implemented unorthodox UI feature: in the editor a top left...
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In my note taking application Edna I’ve implemented unorthodox UI feature: in the editor a top left navigation element is only visible when you’re moving the mouse or when mouse is over the element. Here’s UI hidden: Here’s UI visible: The thinking is: when writing, you want...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Subversive Hyperlink The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing. I send you a link and as long as you have an...
a year ago
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a year ago
The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing. I send you a link and as long as you have an agent, i.e. a browser (or a mere HTTP client), you can access the content at that link. This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of...
Ferd.ca
A Distributed Systems Reading List 2024/02/07 A Distributed Systems Reading List This document contains various resources and quick...
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2024/02/07 A Distributed Systems Reading List This document contains various resources and quick definition of a lot of background information behind distributed systems. It is not complete, even though it is kinda sorta detailed. I had written it some time in 2019 when coworkers...
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A Better Way to Get Data > Note: this was an unfinished draft, i published it anyway but it is incomplete
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Get Started with the Epic Workshop App (tip)
a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.1 released I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and...
a year ago
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I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and runs a script when one of your zones changes. This nsnotifyd-2.1 release includes a few bugfixes: more lenient handling of trailing . in domain names on the command line avoid...
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I ended up adding duplicate records on a unique index in MongoDB how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert...
over a year ago
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how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert records that conflicted the index constraints
Liz Denys
Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website,...
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If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website, you'll see Registrant Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED Registrant Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC. Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411 Registrant City: PANAMA Registrant State/Province:...
Words and Buttons...
Lagrange polynomial as a gateway drug to basis splines This explains Lagrange polynomial: why does it run through all the points, what is the basis...
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over a year ago
This explains Lagrange polynomial: why does it run through all the points, what is the basis polynomial, and how come it's a polynomial in the first place.
The Changelog
Using dar for Data Archiving This is the third post in a series about data archiving to removable media (optical discs and hard...
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This is the third post in a series about data archiving to removable media (optical discs and hard drives). In the first, I explained the difference between backing up and archiving, established goals for the project, and said I’d evaluate git-annex and dar. The second post...
Ink & Switch
Local First Unconference [2023 / STL]
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Validating URLs and email addresses in PHP This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var()...
over a year ago
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This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var() function, it's actually very easy and doesn't require regular expressions. The following wrapper functions force a true boolean response, so you can use them safely in your logic. Email...
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Introducing Collaboration for PostHog PostHog is better with teammates. You only have to create a dashboard once, but it becomes more...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog is better with teammates. You only have to create a dashboard once, but it becomes more valuable every time you invite someone from your…
A Smart Bear
Breaking the Rules When you know the rules, then you can break the rules.
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Announcing request_store
over a year ago
Marco.org
Ten years of Overcast: A new foundation Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign...
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Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign of most of the iOS app, built to carry Overcast into the next decade — and hopefully beyond. Like podcasts better than blog posts? Listen to ATP #596 for more! What’s new Much...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on uploads Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil. Users have to be able to view and delete files they upload; but at the same time, I've never felt that it should be an integral part of the app. Last night I had to face the fact...
David Heinemeier...
Tesla wins When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was...
a year ago
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a year ago
When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was spotty, brakes didn't match the performance, and handling was at best so-so. But it could carry seven, including luggage, was electric, and the dual-motor acceleration was a hoot. So...
A Beautiful Site
Creating a printable website using print stylesheets I frequently see little printer icons all over the web that clearly mean I can print out a clean...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I frequently see little printer icons all over the web that clearly mean I can print out a clean version of the webpage that I'm looking at. These little icons are indeed a beautiful sight from the user's perspective. No more having to modify printer settings or copy and paste...
Sometimes It Works...
A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? For a change, why not try this? Let’s run some numbers… Now for the...
over a year ago
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A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? For a change, why not try this? Let’s run some numbers… Now for the other option ¶A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? Hiring goes a little something like this: Hire traditionally — firewall interviewing (resumé culling, technical testing, group...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to hire first rockstar employee You want someone who can hit the ground running, who’s passionate about your mission, and who can...
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over a year ago
You want someone who can hit the ground running, who’s passionate about your mission, and who can survive being locked […] The post How to hire first rockstar employee appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Josh Collinsworth
How to Check Uniqueness in an Array of Objects in JavaScript Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all object keys (IDs) are unique, and how to find non-unique values.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥 I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in...
a year ago
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a year ago
I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in the repository itself – Junio C Hamano, git@vger.kernel.org: expired key in junio-gpg-pub Git ships with the maintainer’s public key. But you won’t find it in your worktree—it’s...
alexwlchan
Finding a mystery IAM access key Recently I had an issue with some IAM keys. Somebody was trying to use an IAM access key to download...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently I had an issue with some IAM keys. Somebody was trying to use an IAM access key to download some objects from S3, and it wasn’t working – it was giving a “permission denied” error. I wanted to inspect the permissions, but first I had to find where this IAM key came...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days Building wc in the browser From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Building wc in the browser From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to see how much code I wrote. For those not in the know: wc -l shows number of lines in files. Actually, what I have to do is more like find -name "*.go" | xargs wc -l because wc isn’t...
Florian Bellmann |...
Why I blog The reasons why I started blogging.
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
An overview of macros in Rust
over a year ago
Cognitive...
My Own AI Server Cluster When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original...
a year ago
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a year ago
When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original dolphin-13b was a flop, I had some time to go back to the drawing board. When I was ready to train the next iteration, I reconsidered whether to rent or buy the compute for the build. I...
Joel Gascoigne
We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team. We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
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add Whisper to your iOS Action Button The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows...
a year ago
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a year ago
The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows some customization. the highest degree of customization is Shortcuts. Apple's default transcription is terrible. I got a new iPhone recently and so this is my chance.
Irrational...
High-Context Triad. The past couple weeks I’ve been working on three semi-related articles that I think of as the “High...
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a year ago
The past couple weeks I’ve been working on three semi-related articles that I think of as the “High Context Triad.” Those are Layers of context, Navigating ambiguity, and Tradeoffs are multi-dimensional. One of my background projects, probably happening in 2025 or 2026 after I’ve...
bt RSS Feed
Dynamic Checkboxes Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether...
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Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether you’re selecting a pricing plan during a site’s sign-up process or just simply selecting to opt-out from a newsletter, you have most likely interacted with some form of checkbox...
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
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Fight Link Rot with Server- and Client-side Redirects (Netlify and Gatsby) Why you need redirects on clientside and serverside and how to set that up with Gatsby and Netlify
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Easy Toggle Switches Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
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over a year ago
Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles. This is overkill. You can...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Offline Is Just Online With Extreme Latency I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it! He talks about...
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I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it! He talks about changing the paradigm we’re currently in where a program runs in the cloud and we look at it when we’re online, to one where the program runs on the device in our hands and we...
Blog of Simple...
Dobbs v. Jackson ruling is a privacy mess
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last...
a year ago
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a year ago
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last year. The market as a whole is up, and if you're in the whole market, you're benefitting. But all of that upside, basically, belongs to just a handful of mega tech companies. This...
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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over a year ago
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
Steve Klabnik
The profile link relation and you
over a year ago
Dan Slimmon
Post-mortems: content over structure The value of post-mortems is apparent: failures present opportunities to learn about unexpected...
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over a year ago
The value of post-mortems is apparent: failures present opportunities to learn about unexpected behaviors of the system, and learning lets us make improvements to the system’s reliability. The value of post-mortem documents is much less apparent. Many R&D orgs will insist that...
A Beautiful Site
JSON Feed JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec,...
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over a year ago
JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec, introduced just last week, but it's been getting some major coverage and a number of applications have already started supporting it. Since Postleaf was built for the modern...
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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over a year ago
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...
exist
Fooling Around With Word Embeddings
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
David Heinemeier...
VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development I’m kinda shocked. Windows actually got good for web developers. Between VSCode, WSL, and Intel’s...
a year ago
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I’m kinda shocked. Windows actually got good for web developers. Between VSCode, WSL, and Intel’s latest desktop chips, I’ve been living with a PC for over a week that runs my programming tests faster than an M3 Max, ships with an excellent window manager out-the-box, and...
Patrick Kayongo
Can I Speak To Someone? On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from...
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a year ago
On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from Heathrow Airport, London. After boarding, the flight remained on the runway for over an hour without taking off. Eventually, the pilot told us that due to the coup in Niger, the...
David Heinemeier...
Design for the web without Figma By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at 37signals, and I'm sure most every other software shop has too. Adobe didn't pay $20 billion for nothing. But we don't do the bulk of our design work with or in Figma when developing...
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Networking Essentials: Architecture and Principles Discussing the architecture of the Internet and its the principles that guided its original design.
over a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at Reed College. It was a fun...
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Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at Reed College. It was a fun project, studying a discrete dynamic system that was an extension of the Ising model. Sort of cellular automata meets statistical mechanics. It's the only significant thing I've...
David Heinemeier...
Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years We finished pulling seven cloud apps, including HEY, out of AWS and onto our own hardware last...
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We finished pulling seven cloud apps, including HEY, out of AWS and onto our own hardware last summer. But it took until the end of that year for all the long-term contract commitments to end, so 2024 has been the first clean year of savings, and we've been pleasantly surprised...
David Heinemeier...
Finishing Hotwire with the introduction of Strada When we announced Hotwire a few years back, it was always meant as a triptych. The center piece is...
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a year ago
When we announced Hotwire a few years back, it was always meant as a triptych. The center piece is Turbo. That's the drop-in level-up that makes multi-page web apps feel like single-page web apps – without giving up any of the development advantages to server-side programming....
Blog System/5
Revisiting the DOS memory models At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to...
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At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There was one question that came up and remained unanswered: what were the various “models” that the compilers of the day offered?
exist
An Intriguing Triangle
over a year ago
Code Of Honor
Whose bug is this anyway?!? At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the...
over a year ago
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At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the code is right, dammit! So it must be the operating system, the tools or the computer that’s causing the problem. Right?!? Today’s story is about some of those bugs I’ve discovered...
37signals Dev
Thruster is now open source We’ve just released Thruster as open source! Thruster is a minimal HTTP/2 proxy server that we wrote...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’ve just released Thruster as open source! Thruster is a minimal HTTP/2 proxy server that we wrote to make it easier to serve a Rails application with great performance and security. It runs alongside your existing Puma process, and adds: HTTP/2 support SSL (via Let’s Encrypt,...
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...
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8 months 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...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Note: this was originally posted on...
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Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. We’ve dedicated the week of August 22nd to a brand new internal initiative called Build Week. We’ll all be putting aside our regular work for a single week to come...
Making software...
Stay Hungry Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
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over a year ago
Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
David Crawshaw
Fast compilers for fast programs Fast compilers for fast programs Compiler author incentives Aside: languages get caught in the...
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Fast compilers for fast programs Compiler author incentives Aside: languages get caught in the middle The "medium-sized project" moment 2019-04-14 Compiler authors face a tradeoff between compiler speed and executable speed. Take longer to build a binary and you can build a...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Review: Beepy, the pocket-sized, linux-powered cyberdeck THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT. – Erohead, birther of Beepy The SQFMI Beepy alongside my...
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a year ago
THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT. – Erohead, birther of Beepy The SQFMI Beepy alongside my cat printer The Beepy is a handheld Linux console designed by artists and built for nerds. From the first announcement, Beepy’s creator—SQFMI—was candid about the device’s lack of...
Epic Web Dev
Mix Blend Modes (tip) Learn how to create a stunning text over image effect using mix blend modes.
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.
Daniel Marino
Making an Escape Room with only HTML and CSS Beware! This post includes spoilers! I recently built an escape room game called CSScape Room. This...
3 months ago
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Beware! This post includes spoilers! I recently built an escape room game called CSScape Room. This isn’t my first JavaScript-free web game, but HTML and CSS have evolved significantly since my previous attempts, with newer additions allowing for more complex selectors and native...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Build better libraries, use dev warnings Suppose you're making a cool library that sums numbers in an array. You add a new option, inital,...
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Suppose you're making a cool library that sums numbers in an array. You add a new option, inital, that lets users specify an initial value for the summation: sum([1, 1, 1], { inital: 10 }) // 13 Oh no! You made a typo — of course you meant initial, not inital. What's done is...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware October 2023 The Ware for October 2023 is a Seiko DS-250 keyboard synthesizer. Nobody guessed the exact make and...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for October 2023 is a Seiko DS-250 keyboard synthesizer. Nobody guessed the exact make and model of the keyboard, but it was really entertaining to see the comment thread puzzle through the design. The dual 8049’s caught my attention too, as well as the lack of obvious...
Writing - Andreas...
Care about how the work is done High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
My experience with burnout as a startup founder Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In mid-2017, I hit burnout in a really big way...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In mid-2017, I hit burnout in a really big way and wound up taking a 6-week break to recharge. I want to fully share my story here and include some things I wish I’d done differently in the hope
Liz Denys
Recruitment is hard. Recruitment is one of those things that everyone does, but everyone seems to want to do better. It's...
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Recruitment is one of those things that everyone does, but everyone seems to want to do better. It's also the kind of thing that is challenging: it's complicated, it's tiring, and it's personal. Even if the {company, organization, student group} you're recruiting for has...
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Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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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 problems they […] The post How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Seán Barry
Understanding TypeScript Generics TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and...
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TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and when to use them.
Steve Klabnik
The Little Coder's Predicament
over a year ago
Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
a year ago
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a year ago
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....
Confused bit
Simply explained: how does GPT work? By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4,...
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By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Facebook’s LLaMa or even Google’s Bard. They are artificial intelligence programs that can participate in a conversation. Impressively smart, they can easily be...
HTMHell
You Don't Need ARIA For That In web development, writing semantic HTML is important for accessibility, and also provides some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In web development, writing semantic HTML is important for accessibility, and also provides some nice side effects such as supporting browser "reader" modes, SEO, graceful degradation, and exporting. Implementing semantic HTML will also greatly reduce the need for ARIA...
Charles Chen
Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way How Mastodon and the Fediverse are shifting the landscape of social media -- for the better.
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling...
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over a year ago
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling the WiFi toggle switch on my X201 which was a fun “hack” to an annoying issue I was running into. Since then, the laptop has been running flawlessly. The only other minor issue I had...
Steve Klabnik
Run Rails with custom patches
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Designing The Light Source for IRIS This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
a year ago
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a year ago
This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique. IRIS allows us to see the insides of certain types of chips, even after they are soldered to a circuit board. This is possible...
Josh Comeau's blog
My experience as a remote worker I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a...
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over a year ago
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tutorial for github.com/kjk/flex Go package (implementation of CSS flexbox algorithm) Package github.com/kjk/flex implements CSS flexbox layout algorithm in Go. It’s a pure Go port of...
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over a year ago
Package github.com/kjk/flex implements CSS flexbox layout algorithm in Go. It’s a pure Go port of Facebook’s Yoga C library. High-level API overview Despite implementing CSS flexbox spec, it isn’t tied to CSS/HTML in any way. Yoga, for example, can be integrated with...
Ognjen Regoje •...
The value of "Yes, and..." I love Ben Brode’s Design Lessons from Improv talk. It presents techniques that we could all use...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I love Ben Brode’s Design Lessons from Improv talk. It presents techniques that we could all use more frequently. I particularly took the “Yes, and…“ to heart. It is an excellent technique, or attitude really, that keeps the conversation going. Conversations often start slow but...
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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
Vadim Kravcenko
Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering As always, a disclaimer before we start, this is purely subjective. Whether you are a seasoned...
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over a year ago
As always, a disclaimer before we start, this is purely subjective. Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting […] The post Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
macwright.com
Web pages and video games An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are...
a year ago
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a year ago
An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are so amazing and fast?” I’ve thought about it more than I’d like. Anyway, here are some reasons: Web pages are just-in-time delivered, with no installation required. Modern video...
alexwlchan
Cats, cross-stitch, and copyright I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually...
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over a year ago
I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually lived with) is the cheetah. This probably goes back to a school project about cheetahs I did when I was nine years old – I had to write about an endangered species for science...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your phone Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your phone We take our phones everywhere and trust them with a lot of sensitive information, but have we put enough thought into how to secure them? Liz and Geoffrey discuss different...
Maggie Appleton
A Journey into Vue-Router Illustrated notes on how routing works in Vue.js
over a year ago
blag
Recurse Center Day 14: NoSQL Transactions I learned how using MongoDB was fatal for a startup
over a year ago
Charles Chen
3 Tips to Help Dev Teams Build Speed My observations on practices that help all teams build speed.
over a year ago
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...
David Heinemeier...
You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories:...
a year ago
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a year ago
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories: competency or engagement. If it's a problem with engagement – their style of collaboration, their communication, their approach – there's a good chance you can fix it with some...
Charles Chen
TypeScript Conditional Types for Type Safety (Without Assertions) Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
a month ago
David Heinemeier...
Stick with the customer One of the biggest mistakes that new startup founders make is trying to get away from the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
One of the biggest mistakes that new startup founders make is trying to get away from the customer-facing roles too early. Whether it's customer support or it's sales, it's an incredible advantage to have the founders doing that work directly, and for much longer than they find...
Dan Quach Blog
Europe These are a mix of stories from Norway, Croatia, and Slovenia from some past trips. Make Serbia...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
These are a mix of stories from Norway, Croatia, and Slovenia from some past trips. Make Serbia Great Again Our first stop is the city of Dubrovnik in Croatia, which has become well known being the primary filming location for Game of Thrones seasons 2 – 8.  I watched the series,...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Sriracha Fight!! 🥊 At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty...
a year ago
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a year ago
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone wants. Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have no idea when it’ll be back. So, driven by the...
Darek Kay
GitHub developer statistics Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me...
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over a year ago
Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me to check my own impact as an employee: 1002 pull requests shipped 3062 pull requests reviewed 5 years (since migrating to GitHub Enterprise) LOC (lines of code) is a terrible...
ntietz.com blog -...
Estimating projects sells them short (and that's okay) Recently, I read a blog post about doing software project estimates. It's a reasonable post with a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Recently, I read a blog post about doing software project estimates. It's a reasonable post with a reasonable method. But it does what all estimates do: it sells projects short. I don't mean in the sense of underestimating a young promising project's potential, relegating it to...
Joel on Software
Making the web better. With blocks! You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which...
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over a year ago
You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"
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The Rise of Immer in React > 2018: _Published on the Netlify Blog as [The Rise of Immer in...
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over a year ago
> 2018: _Published on the Netlify Blog as [The Rise of Immer in React](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/09/12/the-rise-of-immer-in-react/)_
TokyoDev
Mental Health in the Japanese Tech Industry Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a foreigner (such as Japan where standing out is not considered to be an exceptionally good thing) understandably takes a toll on someone’s mental health. At the same time, language...
Computer Things
Unusual basis types in programming languages TLA+ Workshop TLA+ workshop on Feb 12! Learn how to find complex bugs in software systems before you...
a year ago
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a year ago
TLA+ Workshop TLA+ workshop on Feb 12! Learn how to find complex bugs in software systems before you start building them. I've been saying the code NEWSLETTERDISCOUNT gives $50 off, but that's wrong because I actually set it up for $100 off. Enjoy! Unusual basis types in...
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.
HTMHell
Design pattern for custom tooltips by Jan Hellbusch Should we use tooltips to convey information? Hints and descriptions are often...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Jan Hellbusch Should we use tooltips to convey information? Hints and descriptions are often included on web pages through tooltips – but not everyone has access to them. A tooltip is a short text that usually appears as a popup when a user hovers a mouse pointer over an...
Steve Klabnik
Does unsafe undermine Rust's guarantees?
4 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
The dream forms over time In my recent travels around Asia [http://instagram.com/joelgascoigne], I’ve had the great...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my recent travels around Asia [http://instagram.com/joelgascoigne], I’ve had the great opportunity to meet a lot of local founders and aspiring entrepreneurs. One of the things that seems to come up many times is that people will ask me “what triggered you to become...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2023 The Ware for October 2023 is shown below. Thanks to JeffreyO for contributing this ware!
a year ago
Stephen Wolfram...
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? See also: “Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » It’s...
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over a year ago
See also: “Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does...
dthompson
Functional reactive user interfaces with propagators I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for about a decade now. I even wrote...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for about a decade now. I even wrote a couple of blog posts back in 2014 describing my experiments. My initial source of inspiration was Elm, the Haskell-like language for the web that once had FRP as a core part of...
Ink & Switch
Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications
over a year ago