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Liz Denys
Pointillism rose Sharpie on computer paper, Photoshop to brighten the colors.
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Letters to Joel Spolsky I regret to inform you…
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Zero-setup bundle size checker We all love keeping bundle size under control. There are many great tools that help you with that —...
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We all love keeping bundle size under control. There are many great tools that help you with that — webpack-bundle-analyzer, bundlesize, size-limit, what not. But sometimes you you're lazy, or you're stuck choosing the tool, or the project is too small to justify spending extra...
The Pragmatic...
Meta’s historic growth challenge The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position...
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The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position than Apple, Google, Amazon or Microsoft. Why is this and what can the company do to get out of this situation?
Computer Things
What Mob Programming is Bad At Pairing is two people working together to write code, while mobbing is three or more. Pairing has...
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Pairing is two people working together to write code, while mobbing is three or more. Pairing has been part of the programming milleau since at least the 90's (with extreme programming), while mobbing is more of a 10's thing. I'm going to use them interchangeably from here on out...
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...
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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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moving to a GitHub CMS Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
over a year ago
Elad Blog
Why Has Israel Succeeded At COVID Vaccination? Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly...
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Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly 1% of the entire population vaccinated per day and over 23% of the country vaccinated in the first few weeks. The country hopes to have the entire population over age 16
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we found our Ideal Customer Profile Creating an Ideal Customer Profile is one of the most important things we've ever done at PostHog....
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Creating an Ideal Customer Profile is one of the most important things we've ever done at PostHog. You can see it in our revenue growth: I wish we…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Intro to Node-RED I dipped into [my automation repo](https://github.com/sw-yx/automation/blob/master/README.md) today...
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I dipped into [my automation repo](https://github.com/sw-yx/automation/blob/master/README.md) today and explored Huginn. It didn't really appeal so I looked for alternatives and found [Node-RED](https://nodered.org/). It uses a much more familiar toolchain (JS) and is...
Maggie Appleton
Unbaited Unbaited by Daniel Petho
5 months ago
David Crawshaw
2015-01-11 while (1) { A0.set(); A0.reset(); } www.espruino.com/Performance
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...
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Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a chore: 1....
alexwlchan
Getting the path to the note I have open in Obsidian I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path...
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I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path to the text file as an argument, for example: $ python clean_up_text.py /path/to/text/file.md This is mostly fine, but finding that path is a bit annoying when I want to run them...
The Pragmatic...
The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst....
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over a year ago
Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst. What is happening, and why?
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 31, 2016: 'innocent until proven guilty' gives cover to abusers Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. The ride home after yet another day hearing someone famous has been abusing a woman in his life: Content warning: abuse, rape Johnny Depp has allegedly been...
Jake Zimmerman
Past, Present, and Future of Sorbet Type Syntax
2 months ago
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Pensieve: 11 Mar 2024 - AI Lifestory app back to my personal weight lows!
a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Major Garbage Producers in JS The reckless coding culture of JS favors producing garbage. In real life, if you're environmentally...
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The reckless coding culture of JS favors producing garbage. In real life, if you're environmentally conscious (hey there, my European readers), you probably do all sorts of crazy thinks to cut down on garbage — reject plastic bags in a supermarket, recycle bottles, keep the paper...
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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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over a year ago
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…
tonsky.me
Clojure macros continue to surprise me Clojure macros have two modes: avoid them at all costs/do very basic stuff, or go absolutely...
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12 months ago
Clojure macros have two modes: avoid them at all costs/do very basic stuff, or go absolutely crazy. Here’s the problem: I’m working on Humble UI’s component library, and I wanted to document it. While at it, I figured it could serve as an integration test as well—since I showcase...
Marc Astbury
The Gnarly Bits of Product Design As designers, we focus on the core interaction and forget the bits and pieces around it. The stuff...
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As designers, we focus on the core interaction and forget the bits and pieces around it. The stuff that some people refer to as ‘polish’. Here is a brain dump of my top easy to forget but important design stuff. defining which events should be tracked did we consider loading...
David Heinemeier...
The endangered state of normality When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who...
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When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who were cool but didn't like school at all, friends who were good at school but couldn't muster the will to finish their math homework, and friends who were tomboys. None of these...
Alex Meub
How to Add IPv6 Support to CloudFront and S3 Websites If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have...
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If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have it configured to support IPv6. This means that visitors won’t be able to access your content with IPv6-only enabled which is not good. On top of that, I think its important to...
The Pragmatic...
Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere From learning to code in Australia, to launching Chronosphere in Silicon Valley: cofounder and CEO...
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From learning to code in Australia, to launching Chronosphere in Silicon Valley: cofounder and CEO Martin Mao shares his story.
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...
37signals Dev
Demo of page refreshes with morphing We published a demo showing how Page Refreshes with morphing work in Turbo 8: Comparing code...
a year ago
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a year ago
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....
TokyoDev
Employer of Record (EOR) Services in Japan EoR. Few employers seems to fully understand how it works, and even fewer working professionals have...
over a year ago
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EoR. Few employers seems to fully understand how it works, and even fewer working professionals have ever heard of it. So, what is this three-letter mystery acronym, and how can it help us swing the doors wide open on business building in Japan? Let’s have a look. ## What...
ntietz.com blog -...
Beginning of a MIDI GUI in Rust A project I'm working on (which is definitely not my SIGBOVIK submission for this year, and...
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A project I'm working on (which is definitely not my SIGBOVIK submission for this year, and definitely not about computer ergonomics) requires me to use MIDI. And to do custom handling of it. So I need something that receives those MIDI events and handles them. But... I'm going...
Tinloof - Blog
How to make and test your own React drag and drop list with 0 dependencies I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily...
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over a year ago
I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily have a drag and drop list in your application (dragula, react-beautiful-dnd, and react-dnd). These libraries offer APIs that make it easy to meet your needs without worrying about...
wingolog
finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control...
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Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control concurrency. See for more notes. Java’s / seems to be similar in spirit, though the details differ.guardianscleanup procedures are run concurrently with the mutator, by the...
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Retention rate vs churn rate: An intro to churn analysis Here's what you need to know about churn rate and retention rate: Churn rate is the percentage of...
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Here's what you need to know about churn rate and retention rate: Churn rate is the percentage of customers who stop using your product during a…
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...
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...
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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...
Greg Brockman
It's time to become an ML engineer AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and...
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AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and DALL-E 2 are actually useful and can perform tasks computers cannot do any other way. The act of producing these models is an exploration of a new frontier, with the discovery of...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q2 Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently...
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Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently wrote an article on what she learned by looking at the 900 most popular open source AI tools. https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html In data engineering, one of our primary...
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.
sancho.dev
Run yarn/npm scripts with fzf
over a year ago
Yale e360
Does technology have a right to exist? (No.) So often, people argue against restrictions on technology (or tech companies) with the argument that...
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So often, people argue against restrictions on technology (or tech companies) with the argument that those restrictions aren't possible given the scale, value, or some other property of the technology. For example, a common retort to arguments that Facebook and YouTube should...
Jake Zimmerman
Old vs new case statement in Ruby
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Le Mans 2024 This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some...
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This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some five years after I had first driven a real race car, and even less time since I made participating in the world's greatest endurance race the ultimate goal. But it almost didn't...
Blog of Simple...
Improve your e-commerce performance with analytics
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bring Back Short Stories There was a time, before the screens took over, when people read these things called "books"....
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a year ago
There was a time, before the screens took over, when people read these things called "books". Remarkably efficient things. Always-on display. Could survive dropping from a great height. Somewhat fragile but who cares when you could mass produce thousands of the things for...
Yale e360
Measuring the overhead of HashMaps in Rust While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my...
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While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my hashmaps were taking up a lot of RAM. I mean, a lot of RAM. I did a back of the napkin calculation for what the minimum memory usage should be, and I was getting more than twice...
Maggie Appleton
Synecdoche: Drawing the Part for the Whole Notes on the metaphorical varieties of synecdoche and metonymy
over a year ago
alexwlchan
How I test Rust command-line apps with `assert_cmd` Rust has become my go-to language for my personal toolbox – small, standalone utilities like...
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Rust has become my go-to language for my personal toolbox – small, standalone utilities like create_thumbnail, emptydir, and dominant_colours. There’s no place for Rust in my day job, so having some self-contained hobby projects means I can still have fun playing with it. I’ve...
Making software...
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community....
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How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn't have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in "web dev" some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
HTMHell
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...
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Click to Load Website Images Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to...
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Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to PHPetite, I briefly mentioned how I only loaded in article images if the user clicked or tapped the empty file element. In this post, I’m going to quickly breakdown the update I’ve...
Blog of Simple...
Data Processing Agreements
over a year ago
HTMHell
Boosting testing efficiency: how semantic HTML transforms End-to-End testing by Stefania Mellai Semantic and accessible HTML serves as a powerful tool, enhancing not only human...
a year ago
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by Stefania Mellai Semantic and accessible HTML serves as a powerful tool, enhancing not only human interaction but also the efficiency of software systems. For instance, when users fill out forms with clear labels and accessible input fields, this reduces errors and ensures...
Blog of Simple...
Web Analytics for Crypto Companies
10 months ago
TokyoDev
How to Write Resumes for Jobs in Japan Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially...
a year ago
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a year ago
Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially for software developers. The stakes are high (a job you want!), but the advice is uncountable and often contradictory. While many people may first think that it would be natural to...
Quentin Santos
Upgrading to Debian Trixie I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other...
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I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other words, Trixie has now been testing for more than a year, and will most likely become the new stable in less than a year. In the past, I encountered a few surprises with unstable …...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from the Chrome Team’s “Blink principles of web compatibility” Following up on a previous article I wrote about backwards compatibility, I came across this...
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Following up on a previous article I wrote about backwards compatibility, I came across this document from Rick Byers of the Chrome team titled “Blink principles of web compatibility” which outlines how they navigate introducing breaking changes. “Hold up,” you might say....
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Supervised Learning: Regression Drawing lines among dots and more!
over a year ago
Marco.org
WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time...
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In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time for running “baby” software and the “baby” internet. He was right. Developers weren’t given access to make native apps until the iPhone’s second year. Before the native development...
Alice GG
Is technical analysis just stock market astrology? Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions. A...
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Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions. A lot of investors seem skeptical of the use of past price data, which leads to technical analysis often being perceived as similar to astrology. In this article, I will try to see if...
Making software...
They Won't Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites They Won't Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites 2019-06-25 Your website is probably slow. I'm not...
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They Won't Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites 2019-06-25 Your website is probably slow. I'm not trying to make you feel bad or dismiss all the hard work you've put into your project. Heck, performance might have been a core value of the design. But websites can always be...
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My Path to Developer Relations and Thoughts on the Future of DevRel Alex Lakatos interviewed me for the Devrel Advent calendar he put together
over a year ago
TokyoDev
All About Working Visas for Hiring Foreigners Full-time in Japan *This article is a translation of [a Japanese...
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*This article is a translation of [a Japanese article](https://michi.sociarise.co.jp/recruiting-tips/working-visas/) by Takumi Nakamura, the CEO of [Sociarise](https://sociarise.co.jp), a consultancy for hiring global talents.* When considering hiring foreign nationals, their...
Irrational...
The Engineering executive’s role in hiring. Everyone in an engineering organization contributes to the hiring process. As an engineer, you may...
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a year ago
Everyone in an engineering organization contributes to the hiring process. As an engineer, you may have taken pride in being an effective interviewer. As an engineering manager, you may have prioritized becoming a strong closer, convincing candidates to join your team. As a more...
Nelson's Weblog
The Transcantábrico Train We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was...
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We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was great! Like a cruise but on a train. We did something similar in India in 2015 and it’s an interesting way to travel. Some photos here. The Transcantábrico goes across a part of...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Digital Trees Trees have many functions: they provide shade, they purify air, they store carbon, they grow...
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Trees have many functions: they provide shade, they purify air, they store carbon, they grow fruit, and they’re aesthetically pleasing. What’s intriguing to me about trees is their return on investment (ROI). It takes years, even decades, to grow a tree to the point where you...
Explained from First...
Email explained from first principles
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...
Liz Denys
To the pretty pitter, pitter, patter I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically...
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I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically enjoy the process but don't walk in the rain because they dislike arriving at their destinations wet. However, unless I have something of a very pressing importance at the other end...
Tinloof - Blog
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
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ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
Engineer’s Codex
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
a year ago
Seldo.com
Becoming American
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Notes on cone 6 clay bodies, part 2 I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've...
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I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've used. Note that I currently practice in a community studio that glaze fires to cone 6 in oxidation, so my observations reflect that. Standard 420 Sculpture: Cone 6: average shrinkage...
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The essential tools used by product engineers Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to...
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over a year ago
Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to gather insights, ideate, and deploy solutions…
Daniel Marino
How to Process Customer Criticism Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?!...
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over a year ago
Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?! Design is super subjective, and everyone is a critic! Regardless of your education or how sharp your design eye is, you’ll never be able to please everyone. This is especially true...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Building Authenticated Serverless Jamstack Apps with Gatsby and Netlify Gatsby is more than a simple static site generator. It uses JavaScript to rehydrate Markup into a...
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Gatsby is more than a simple static site generator. It uses JavaScript to rehydrate Markup into a fully dynamic React app - which means you can use APIs to do all sorts of dynamic functionality!
Ralph Ammer
The Book of Change Introduction to the Yijing or "book of change", China's oldest philosophical book. The post The Book...
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Introduction to the Yijing or "book of change", China's oldest philosophical book. The post The Book of Change appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
dthompson
Installing Guix on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1 The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from eBay. I loved that laptop,...
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over a year ago
The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from eBay. I loved that laptop, but time marches on and old hardware eventually becomes too slow for modern development needs. After a lot of indecision, I bought a 10th generation Thinkpad X1 with an Intel Core...
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Post Bootcamp Mindmap What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or...
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What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or bootcamp?
Irrational...
Video of Developing Eng Leadership Styles. The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering leadership styles. It’s an interesting chapter to me peronally, precisely because it’s not something I would have agreed with or written five years ago. This past Friday I gave a...
Tony Finch's blog
semaphoreslo in Golang and GNU make Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago....
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Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago. They are weird: usually the only numbers of concurrent processes we care about are zero, one, or many – but semaphores deal with those fussy finite numbers in between. Yesterday I...
macwright.com
Placemark is now open source Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions...
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Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions welcome Placemark is the map editor software-as-a-service that I built for several years. It’s a website where you can import, create, edit, export, publish, and visualize geospatial data. I’m...
Sometimes It Works...
Getting background colours to go all the way The problem Why is this happening? Back to why... There is a solution! I'm pretty proud of the...
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a year ago
The problem Why is this happening? Back to why... There is a solution! I'm pretty proud of the Gitamic diff viewer. It's not perfect (and probably never will be thanks to different browser rendering engines), but it can handle some pretty gnarly diffs quite rapidly. ("Quite...
On Life and Lisp
Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
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For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf –refresh upgrade. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
Julia Evans
Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood...
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Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood until a few weeks ago. Let’s say you’re running this command to watch for some specific output in a log file: tail -f /some/log/file | grep thing1 | grep thing2 If log lines are...
Coding Horror
There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security Remember "cybersecurity"? Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .....
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Remember "cybersecurity"? Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .. things! Who knows what kind of naughty digital mischief they might be up to? Unfortunately, we now live in a world where this kind of digital mischief is literally rewriting the...
Irrational...
Public company comparables. A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss statement, which is a foundational executive...
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A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss statement, which is a foundational executive skill. I also subsequently wrote about ways to measure your engineering organization. Despite having written those, I still spend a lot of time wondering about effective ways to...
TokyoDev
RubyKaigi 2024 reflections For the first time in five years I attended RubyKaigi. From 2007 to 2018, I attended every...
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For the first time in five years I attended RubyKaigi. From 2007 to 2018, I attended every RubyKaigi, volunteering as staff from 2011 onwards. This time though, I participated as a sponsor via TokyoDev. Sponsoring the conference was an experiment, but I figured there wasn’t a way...
Steve Klabnik
Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust
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A Beautiful Site
Querying through shadow roots Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from...
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Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace. <sl-button>Click me</sl-button> Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
A Smart Bear
Navigating the unpredictability of everything We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it...
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We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it means you need these techniques to navigate a volatile world.
Ink & Switch
01 · Universal version control We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators...
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We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators produce better work.
A Smart Bear
Stubborn Visionaries & Pigheaded Fools How do you know when to stop, versus when to push through? You don't, not even in hindsight. But...
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How do you know when to stop, versus when to push through? You don't, not even in hindsight. But these guiding questions can help.
Julia Evans
Building a custom site for zine feedback Hello! A few years I wrote a post called A new way I’m getting feedback on my posts: beta...
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over a year ago
Hello! A few years I wrote a post called A new way I’m getting feedback on my posts: beta readers! about how I’d started using beta readers. The basic strategy for getting feedback there was to email people a PDF and ask for feedback. This was kind of inefficient, and so over the...
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Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
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This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
Irrational...
Better to micromanage than be disengaged. For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would...
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For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished...
Confessions of a...
Celebrating 2^13 Subscribers & My Birthday I started this Substack on 23rd April, 2024 from 0 subscribers with a dream of writing deeply...
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I started this Substack on 23rd April, 2024 from 0 subscribers with a dream of writing deeply technical articles and making a living.
the jsomers.net blog
Most book clubs are doing it wrong The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk...
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The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet […]
Josh Comeau's blog
The “const” Deception The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change....
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The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change. Curiously, though, we do seem to be able to edit objects and arrays that are created using “const”. In this tutorial, we're going to dig into the incredibly-important distinction between...
Alex Meub
Controlling Wemo Smart Plugs with Arduino «««< HEAD Smart outlets are great. I’ve owned Belkin Wemo Mini smart plugs for years and used them...
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«««< HEAD Smart outlets are great. I’ve owned Belkin Wemo Mini smart plugs for years and used them for controlling lighting and fans. I thought it would be cool to control my Wemo plugs using a physical button (in addition to my phone). In many situations, a button is faster than...
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IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020 Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Startup Exercise: What can't be solved with money? What can't be solved with money, are the most valuable things.
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blag
PSA: SQLite does not do checksums SQLite does not do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
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samwho.dev
Language Interoperability From the Ground Up How does a function in Ruby call a function in C? How does a function in Kotlin call a function in...
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How does a function in Ruby call a function in C? How does a function in Kotlin call a function in Java? It's no secret that you can call functions in one programming language from another. Not only is it possible, it can be done in multiple ways. But how does it actually...
Dan Slimmon
Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by...
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Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by Postgres. There was this one class of query that would get slower and slower over the course of about an hour. The exact pathology is a tale for another time, but the investigation led...
bunnie's blog
Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White...
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A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White House and the Secretary of Commerce to place restrictions on Americans working with RISC-V (see also the initial request from the Senate) in order to prevent China from gaining...
Yale e360
Reasons to write design docs Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half...
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Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half true, though, since my job is as much about people and communciation as it is about technology. Probably more, actually. Writing is useful at all levels of software engineering. It's...
Eric Bailey
Saying thank you Things are in a really bad place right now. It is difficult to think of any aspect of the world that...
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Things are in a really bad place right now. It is difficult to think of any aspect of the world that isn’t being strangled by malignant forces. This includes the web. It's been a long time since the altruistic early web—putting content out there for the its own sake. The web...
Josh Comeau's blog
Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be...
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When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.
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The Third Age of JavaScript A bunch of things are moving in JavaScript - it is quite feasible that the JS of 10 years from now...
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A bunch of things are moving in JavaScript - it is quite feasible that the JS of 10 years from now will look totally unrecognizable
Eric Bailey
Forbidden noodles My obsession with food-based taxonomy continues. Here are all the forbidden noodles I am aware...
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My obsession with food-based taxonomy continues. Here are all the forbidden noodles I am aware of: Bucatini The FDA banning the import of this beloved pasta was one of the many tragedies 2020 visited on us. If there is any consolation, know that the De Cecco pasta factories have...
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Digital Garden Terms of Service This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who...
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This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who peruse Digital Gardens, and the people who Learn in Public with them.
Posts on Nikita...
EuroRust 2024 I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo, an...
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I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo, an actor system written in Rust. As I’m no longer an active contributor to elfo, it feels a bit bittersweet to finish last thing related to the project. I wish maintainers of elfo well...
Eric Bailey
I’ve had enough! When access friction becomes an access barrier
over a year ago
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TL;DR of Why React is Not Reactive A recap of my first ever conference talk
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
How to add video tracking using Google Tag Manager?
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Neil Panchal
Bell Labs Org Chart I've always been curious about the story of Bell Labs – how it was formed, why it was successful,...
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I've always been curious about the story of Bell Labs – how it was formed, why it was successful, its challenges and struggles, innovation engine, people, its organizational structure, operations, and its legacy. The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner is an excellent albeit slightly...
A Beautiful Site
Getting localized month and day names in the browser JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip —...
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over a year ago
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app. I've...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Advanced markdown processing in Go Using gomarkdown/markdown library This article describes an advanced markdown processing...
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Using gomarkdown/markdown library This article describes an advanced markdown processing in Go using gomarkdown/markdown library. All the code examples are available at https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/tree/master/examples Basics first Here’s a good...
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My 2024 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
7 months ago
Josh Collinsworth
Debugging iOS Safari (when all you have is a Mac) Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an...
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Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an iPhone. Here are a few options to get around that problem.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Zero to Unmaintainable in 1.2 Commands Dave posted “The time to unmaintainable is very low” about how pervasive this idea of “get up and...
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Dave posted “The time to unmaintainable is very low” about how pervasive this idea of “get up and going quick” is: I can burp some npm commands into my terminal, burp some more to setup a deployment pipeline and blam! Website. The time to product demo is so low. But there’s...
Josh Comeau's blog
Animating the Unanimatable An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items...
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An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items in a list swap positions.
Making software...
Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to...
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Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to user Achraf JEDAY for putting these instructions together on Stack Overflow (although his comments were targeting an older version of Ruby). This post is more for my own personal...
orlp.net - Blog...
When Random Isn't This post is an anecdote from over a decade ago, of which I lost the actual code. So please forgive...
a year ago
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a year ago
This post is an anecdote from over a decade ago, of which I lost the actual code. So please forgive me if I do not accurately remember all the details. Some details are also simplified so that anyone that likes computer security can enjoy this article, not just those who have...
Basta’s Notes
My event-driven life I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to...
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over a year ago
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to publish, but haven’t found the words to complete any of them to my satisfaction. I thought I’d take the time to publish something that is maybe a bit rambly and less focused than...
Alex Meub
Better Wheels for the Traeger Tailgater I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and...
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over a year ago
I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and works amazingly well. It has more than enough grill space for me and is pretty minimalist on features, which I like. Last Thanksgiving, many people wished they didn’t get the...
Vadim Kravcenko
How do I tell my cofounder I need to quit? First of all, I’m sorry you ended up in such a situation. Running in overdrive for so long is a...
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a year ago
First of all, I’m sorry you ended up in such a situation. Running in overdrive for so long is a […] The post How do I tell my cofounder I need to quit? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Contraption Co.
Lost and found 2024 recap + what's next
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Liz Denys
Puffed millet and qui'nola I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been obsessed. All I want for breakfast these days is a bowl of this granola with some plain yogurt. UPDATE: I no longer order from Sqirl after hearing about their jam mold and the deeper...
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...
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Notes from Amir Shevat on Measuring & Managing Developer Relations Notes from an a16z podcast about developer relations that I thought was valuable
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Introducing Surreal CMS 7 Last November was the 10 year mark for Surreal CMS, a content management service I created to manage...
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over a year ago
Last November was the 10 year mark for Surreal CMS, a content management service I created to manage static (and mostly static) websites. Last week, I soft launched Surreal CMS 7. This new version is a complete rebuild from scratch using Node.js + Vue.js. I worked on this new...
Contraption Co.
What worked for finding a software engineering job Retro on my recent job search
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Miguel Carranza
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...
Evan Jones -...
Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those...
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a year ago
You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those functions modify global state, and can cause other threads calling getenv() to crash. This also causes crashes in other languages that use those C standard library functions, such as...
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...
Lennart Koopmann
Documentation Belongs in Engineering Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point,...
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a year ago
Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point, many companies move the hosting and writing of documentation out of engineering and into a separate part of the company. It could be marketing, it could be customer success. This...
Joel Gascoigne
Focus on the line, not the dot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I noticed the Who’s Hiring? [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617] thread pop up again on Hacker News. If you’re hiring, it’s a great place to share that fact. Since around half a...
Maggie Appleton
Leaving Elicit Reflections on two years of working at Elicit and why it's time to leave
a year ago
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
Yale e360
That time I wrote malware and got caught Most of us make some bad decisions in high school. While other people were drinking, going to...
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a year ago
Most of us make some bad decisions in high school. While other people were drinking, going to parties, and who knows what else, I was doing some experimentation of my own. I was writing my first (and only) piece of malware. From as early as I can remember, I've had a fascination...
MMapped blog
Fungible tokens: payment flows
over a year ago
Coding Horror
The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for
alexwlchan
Documenting my DNS records I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of...
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a year ago
I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of sysadmins everywhere. It all went fine, but I definitely felt like I was playing with fire. My current domain registrar is Hover, and the only way I can manage my domains is through a...
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Found-Money Startups 'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of...
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over a year ago
'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of Found-Money Startups and a short list I've been keeping.
Tinloof - Blog
How to build cron jobs with Netlify functions We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's...
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We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's portfolio companies into their Jobs page.
Steve Klabnik
About Crows
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
What launching Experimentation taught us about running effective A/B tests We just launched our Experimentation suite, and there's a ton we learned about running successful...
over a year ago
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We just launched our Experimentation suite, and there's a ton we learned about running successful experiments. It was a no brainer product decision…
Yale e360
Units in Go and Rust show philosophical differences Units are a key part of doing any calculation. A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't...
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over a year ago
Units are a key part of doing any calculation. A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't represent anything in particular. If I tell you to go drive 5, you'd naturally ask "5 what?" Software often has to deal with quantities that represent real-world things. How we...
ntietz.com blog -...
Debugging my wife's alarm clock My wife's alarm clock has been acting up lately. Sporadic at first but then every day, it wouldn't...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
My wife's alarm clock has been acting up lately. Sporadic at first but then every day, it wouldn't blare in the morning at the set time. Instead, when it was supposed to go off it would... reset itself. The time would start flashing in that "I'm confused because the power went...
TokyoDev
Top Coworking Spaces in Karuizawa Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from...
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Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from Tokyo by Shinkansen. The elevation is approximately 1000 meters above sea level, making the summers relatively mild. Unlike other colder places in Japan, it doesn’t get much snow,...
Steve Klabnik
Moving from Sinatra to Rails
over a year ago
Kevin Chen
Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS is supposed to be fast now, right? But even when there was plenty of bandwidth, it still took several seconds to load a page of text. One WebPageTest later, and I found the...
Julia Evans
Some notes on NixOS Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my continuing experiments with Nix. My motivation for this was that previously I was using Ansible to provision the server, but then I’d ad hoc installed a bunch of stuff on...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Switching Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
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over a year ago
Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the “golden age” in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
bt RSS Feed
Disabling Comments in WordPress Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future and previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down. Back...
Evan Jones -...
Advice on looking for a new software engineering job I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this...
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over a year ago
I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this long enough that people now ask me for advice. I've only changed jobs 3 times in my career, so I'm not sure I'm an expert. However, I decided I should write down my advice, to...
Making software...
RSS Hacks With XSLT RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the...
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over a year ago
RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the better) with my humble Shinobi Website[^0] script. The most recent update in patch-1 came with a solid amount of QoL improvements. If you're interested, I wrote about it on the official...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Webkit’s New Color Picker as an Example of Good Platform Defaults I’ve written about how I don’t love the idea of overriding basic computing controls. Instead, I...
a month ago
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a month ago
I’ve written about how I don’t love the idea of overriding basic computing controls. Instead, I generally favor opting to respect user choice and provide the controls their platform does. Of course, this means platforms need to surface better primitives rather than supplying...
Joel Gascoigne
For the first few people, hire from your network * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky enough to have reached the stage with Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we have had to start to think about growing the team. For the first 10 months the team consisted of just...
bt RSS Feed
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often...
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over a year ago
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often times they come with a performance cost: JavaScript. Luckily for us, we can create our very own shiny, animated buttons with pure CSS. The Demo Live CodePen Example The...
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is SaaS without the aaS It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve...
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a year ago
It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve already sold more than quarter of a million dollars worth of this beautifully simple installable chat system. People are using it to replace existing systems costing tens of thousands...
sancho.dev
query-json: jq written in Reason
over a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
Kagi is a good search engine Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been...
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Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been happy with it. It’s not free but there’s a limited trial to check it out. I pay $10/mo for unlimited access. Turns out I do about 50 searches a day. I’m unclear on how Kagi works...
Blog System/5
The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as...
9 months ago
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If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about any longer”.  It's time to see how any of that carried over through the 16-bit to 64-bit evolution.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Datasette for an ELT Personal Twitter Data Warehouse EDA tools like Datasette dramatically lower the cost of data analysis, with a surprisingly simple...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
EDA tools like Datasette dramatically lower the cost of data analysis, with a surprisingly simple ELT contract - You handle the Extract phase, it handles the Load, and exposes a standard UI for you to do dynamic Transforms.
HTMHell
There can be only one: Options for building “choose one” fields When it comes to building out forms, it sometimes seems like there are at once both too few field...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When it comes to building out forms, it sometimes seems like there are at once both too few field types and too many. This is especially true when it comes to having users choose an option from a pre-defined list, also known as “choose one” fields. This article will take you on a...
Patrick Kayongo
On Leaving Coffee It’s not the smell of the brew that you miss most Though the scent certainly does do something It’s...
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a year ago
It’s not the smell of the brew that you miss most Though the scent certainly does do something It’s not the memory of the dark beans that haunt your thoughts Though their beauty can’t be unseen It’s not the burst of energy from the first sip Though it’s hard to find other means...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Things I Like Over Things I Don’t It was another typical day on the internet: somebody did something, it felt like a big deal to me,...
a year ago
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a year ago
It was another typical day on the internet: somebody did something, it felt like a big deal to me, and I wanted to blog about why I didn’t like it. To vent, I sent Dave a private message — well a couple of them — detailing my frustrations. Looking back, I don’t remember what I...
Yale e360
PyOhio This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted...
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This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted soon, so I will opt to link to those as they come in, but first, here are some of the highlights: Ed Finkler of OSMI gave a great talk on mental illness in tech, resources that are...
Joel Gascoigne
Raising funding as a first-time founder * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been fortunate enough to meet with some outstanding first-time entrepreneurs on a few different days during this week. In almost every case I can really feel the passion and determination...
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Why we won't hire a junior with five years of experience We just opened a search for a new junior programmer at 37signals. It's been years since we last...
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We just opened a search for a new junior programmer at 37signals. It's been years since we last hired a junior, but the real reason the listing is turning heads is because we're open about the yearly salary: $145,849*. That's high enough that programmers with lots of experience...
Vadim Kravcenko
How dangerous is over-engineering for a start up? Hey there, I appreciate your question—it’s a complex one that many startups, including those I’ve...
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Hey there, I appreciate your question—it’s a complex one that many startups, including those I’ve consulted with, grapple with. I […] The post How dangerous is over-engineering for a start up? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Personal Websites Are As Vulnerable As Us I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of...
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I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of personal web design, I will call it quits.” Then I read a post by them later and they say something like, “Gah! I just really don’t like where I’m at with my personal website.” And in...
Ink & Switch
02 · Writing prose Writers of books, blog posts, and science papers could benefit from powerful version control.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Gist That Keeps On Giving I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo. Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local...
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I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo. Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local branch with all my work and there’s no backup on GitHub. “This is git. There has got to be a version of this things still on my computer somewhere, right? RIGHT?!” So I start...
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Supervised Learning: Ensemble Learning and AdaBoost Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how...
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Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how to boost it even further, and faster
Charles Chen
Concurrent Processing in .NET 6 with System.Threading.Channels (Bonus: Interval Trees) Using .NET System.Threading.Channels for concurrent processing with interval trees.
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Accessible SVGs in High Contrast Mode
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Julia Evans
Dealing with diverged git branches Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is when a local branch...
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Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is when a local branch (like main) and a remote branch (maybe also called main) have diverged. There are two things that make this situation hard: If you’re not used to interpreting git’s error messages,...
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On being a great gift-giver I received a great gift that I love
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The Changelog
Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a...
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Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a corporate or home network from a remote location, and access services as if you were there. But these days, the notion of “corporate network” and “home network” are less based around...
Seán Barry
Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific...
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The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific pattern, but I use it in almost every single project.
Epic Web Dev
Full Stack Foundations (workshop) The Full Stack Foundations workshop covers modern web development best practices including Styling,...
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The Full Stack Foundations workshop covers modern web development best practices including Styling, Routing, Data Loading, Forms, SEO, Error Handling, and more!
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Merchants of complexity It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course,...
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It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course, everyone says they want something simple, but the way they buy reveals that they usually don't. This is the secret that the merchants of complexity have long since figured out. That...
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How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish...
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note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts.
Vadim Kravcenko
Build vs Buy: age old dilemma The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch...
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The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch or buy some off-the-shelf solution? […] The post Build vs Buy: age old dilemma appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
box-sizing: border-box explained It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us...
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It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us back to the days of early Internet Explorer. The good ol' days # You might remember how Internet Explorer 6 (quirks mode) and below did that whole box model thing wrong. If not,...
Neil Panchal
Dear JetBrains. Don't mess with your UI. So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of...
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So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of professionals. Announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new-ui-preview-for-your-jetbrains-ide/ New Jet Brains interface We're professionals. We can...
Charles Chen
Your Interview Process Is Too Damn Long (and How To Fix It) Long interview processes have become a bane in the tech industry. Can we fix it?
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TokyoDev
The Fundamental Information Technology Engineer Examination: My Experience Several years ago, I went to Japan on holiday for the first time, and fell in love with the country....
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Several years ago, I went to Japan on holiday for the first time, and fell in love with the country. I started studying the Japanese language and began to wonder what it would take for me to move there and work as a software developer. While still at university, I had an...
General Robots
Coming soon This is General Robots.
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⛳ Moving Forward in times of uncertainty The last weeks are the worst I’ve seen in my life, and it’s unclear what the world will look like...
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The last weeks are the worst I’ve seen in my life, and it’s unclear what the world will look like […] The post ⛳ Moving Forward in times of uncertainty appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Notes on Adversarial Interoperability Summarizing thoughts from Seth Godin and Cory Doctorow on Interoperability
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A little taste of fall and home: pumpkin muffins I grew up on pumpkin muffins. Every fall, without fail, my mom would make them by the dozens in her...
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I grew up on pumpkin muffins. Every fall, without fail, my mom would make them by the dozens in her heart-shaped muffin mold, and I'd eat them for breakfast, sneak them into my lunchbox, frost them for dessert after dinner, and snack on them off courts at tennis meets. But I...
Eric Bailey
The Radium Craze Radium was discovered in 1898 by Polish chemist Marie Sklodowska Curie. To produce radium, you need...
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Radium was discovered in 1898 by Polish chemist Marie Sklodowska Curie. To produce radium, you need to extract it from pitchblende, an ore that contains uranium. Radium was discovered in working with the known properties of pitchblende. Curie noticed that pitchblende in its...
A Smart Bear
AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous...
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The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous technology revolutions like mobile and the Internet. Ignore this at your peril.
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Logical Fallacies, Biases, and Useful Heuristics A list of logical fallacies and biases I found useful for a better understanding of human behavior...
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Irrational...
Testing strategy: avoid the waterfall strategy trap with iterative refinement. If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that prematurely applying...
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If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that prematurely applying pressure to a strategy’s rollout prevents evaluating whether the strategy is effective. Pressure changes behavior in profound ways, and many of those changes are intended to make...
Kagi Blog
Celebrating our first 20,000 members Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* ,...
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Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* , including over 1,500 families all over the world, in our community.
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When we build a website with Sanity, we configure SEO best practices to rank higher on search engine result pages.
Computer Things
Strings do too many things No Newsletter next week TLA+ Workshop and moving places. Strings do too many things In the unusual...
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No Newsletter next week TLA+ Workshop and moving places. Strings do too many things In the unusual basis types email1 I wrote this about strings: We use strings for identifiers, human writing, structured data, and grammars. If you instead use symbols for identifiers then you can...
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You Don't Need ARIA For That In web development, writing semantic HTML is important for accessibility, and also provides some...
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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...
A Beautiful Site
When To Create CSS Parts I was recently asked a really good question on Twitter: when shouldn't an element be a CSS...
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I was recently asked a really good question on Twitter: when shouldn't an element be a CSS Part? I've spent a lot of time building web components, most of which are intended for design systems, and my answer is pretty straight-forward. Every part you expose is an API that you're...
Yale e360
Optimize sprint points to get nowhere fast As developers, we can be metric obsessed. We tend to like objective measures of things. 99th...
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As developers, we can be metric obsessed. We tend to like objective measures of things. 99th percentile request times, CPU percentage, disk utilization. Nothing escapes our attempts to quantify it, not even our productivity: enter story points1. We measure our productivity in...
Liz Denys
Sea strands V60-style coffee cone, 2024 Rising sea levels / eroding beaches / between saltwater and the sea strands / melting ice caps
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Joel Gascoigne
What is your coming soon page for? > "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect." - Mark...
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> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain When you’re building a startup, it’s very important to question assumptions. I think one of these assumptions which needs to be questioned is the initial few steps people
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website A little while back I heard about the White House launching their version of a Drudge Report style...
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A little while back I heard about the White House launching their version of a Drudge Report style website called White House Wire. According to Axios, a White House official said the site’s purpose was to serve as “a place for supporters of the president’s agenda to get the real...
James Vaughan's blog
Systemd Timers as a Cron Alternative
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware May 2023 Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS...
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Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS tracker with cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity). The company went out of business shortly after the start of the pandemic. Here’s some more views of the ware — I had left...
David Crawshaw
2015-10-13 "So OpenSSL has optional code to reject attempts to use weak DES keys. It, sanely, is not enabled...
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"So OpenSSL has optional code to reject attempts to use weak DES keys. It, sanely, is not enabled by default; if you want it you have to compile with DEVP_CHECK_DES_KEY.Last Thursday it was reported to the openssl-dev mailing list by Ben Kaduk that there was a defect in this...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Minute Rice, Minute Text, Minute Websites I was reading Baldur’s article (which I took notes on) and he suggests an interesting overlap...
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I was reading Baldur’s article (which I took notes on) and he suggests an interesting overlap between AI enthusiasts and “idea people”: That algogen fans are predominantly idea people—the lot who think that 99% of the value delivered by any given form of media comes from the...
Eric Bailey
Minor version bump I got a title change today. I’m now a Senior Designer. What’s worth noting is that this is the first...
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I got a title change today. I’m now a Senior Designer. What’s worth noting is that this is the first place I’ve worked that has given me a title change. I’ve been in the industry for 12 years. Titles are really important if you’re a member of a minoritized group. This is to say...
Words and Buttons...
A picture is worth a thousand tags This shows how a picture can be turned into an HTML table. With this, you can not only have nicer...
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This shows how a picture can be turned into an HTML table. With this, you can not only have nicer tables or uglier pictures, but you can have something that is both at the same time.
the singularity is...
There is no hard takeoff Back in 2014, Elon Musk referred to AI as summoning the demon. And it wasn’t hard to see that view....
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Back in 2014, Elon Musk referred to AI as summoning the demon. And it wasn’t hard to see that view. Soon, Go agents would beat top humans learning from self play. By the end of 2017, the same algorithm mastered Chess and Shogi. By 2020, it didn’t even need tons of calls to the...
Blog - Bitfield...
Test names should be sentences Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and even our future selves....
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Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and even our future selves. Well-written tests focus on a single unit of behaviour that can be described in a brief sentence, and we can use that sentence as the name of the test.
Neil Panchal
How to install PostgreSQL in a custom directory When you install postgresql using apt-get, it runs initdb and automatically creates a main cluster....
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When you install postgresql using apt-get, it runs initdb and automatically creates a main cluster. Typically, the default data directory location is in /var/lib/postgresql/<version>/<cluster>/. There are three ways to install PostgreSQL in a custom directory. Options 1 and 2 are...
Remains of the Day
Seeing Like an Algorithm In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue...
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In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work. It is the bus on its motherboard that connects and closes all its feedback loops. But in the breathless rush to understand why companies might want to acquire...
David Crawshaw
2016-02-10 "Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody...
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"Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you play with them. They are so...
HTMHell
What the slot? by Egor Kloos (aka dutchcelt) Web Components. The discussion seems to pop up more than it used...
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by Egor Kloos (aka dutchcelt) Web Components. The discussion seems to pop up more than it used to. Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework HTML Web Components: An Example Material web components 1.0 release HTML Web Components are Just JavaScript? Web Components...
David Crawshaw
Go 1.13: xerrors Go 1.13: xerrors 2019-04-28 Part of the Go 2 series of language changes is a new .error inspection...
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Go 1.13: xerrors 2019-04-28 Part of the Go 2 series of language changes is a new .error inspection proposal The error inspection proposal adds several features to errors that have been tried elsewhere (in packages such as ), with some new implementation tricks. The proposal has...
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News Websites Are Dumpster Fires News Websites Are Dumpster Fires 2019-05-29 Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users...
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News Websites Are Dumpster Fires 2019-05-29 Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users have decided to consume information elsewhere. Why? Because the news industry has become a cesspool of anti-consumer and blackhat practices that has eroded trust for the sake of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Surprisingly High Table Stakes of Modern Blogs Bottom Line Up Front: You are probably underestimating how much goes into blogging technology these...
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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...
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...
Oxide Computer...
The Cloud Computer Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first commercial cloud computer —...
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Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first commercial cloud computer — along with our $44M Series A financing. From the outset at Oxide, and as I outlined in my 2020 Stanford talk, we have had three core beliefs as a company: Cloud computing is the...
macwright.com
codemirror-continue by Wrote and released codemirror-continue today. When you’re writing a block comment in TypeScript and...
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Wrote and released codemirror-continue today. When you’re writing a block comment in TypeScript and you hit “Enter”, this intelligently adds a * on the next line. Most likely, your good editor (Neovim, VS Code) already has this behavior and you miss it in CodeMirror. So I wrote...
Elad Blog
The False Narrative Around Theranos One of the interesting aspects of the Theranos trial is the degree to which some folks are buying...
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One of the interesting aspects of the Theranos trial is the degree to which some folks are buying into part of the defense's narrative that "Theranos was just acting like every Silicon Valley startup". This is of course blatantly false, but it is being adopted as some form of...
37signals Dev
Kamal 2.0 released We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or...
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We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or bare metal servers. Kamal 1.0 was designed with 37signal’s use case in mind — deploying an application across multiple hosts, served with an external load balancer. With Kamal 2.0...
Maggie Appleton
The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
over a year ago
HTMHell
#17 inaccessible cards Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text. Bad code <section> ...
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Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text. Bad code <section> <section> <h2>Overview</h2> <figure class="card" data-url="image1.html" style="background: url(image1.jpg)"> <figcaption> <h4>My heading</h4> ...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2023 The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like...
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The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like the ATOMSTACK Laser Engraver (link without affiliate code), and the module itself is produced by Shenzhen Xinghan Laser Technology Co, Ltd.. I don’t have an exact part number for...
HTMHell
Meaningful labels using ARIA – or not. If I had a dollar for every time I've had to tell someone to remove an aria-label from an...
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If I had a dollar for every time I've had to tell someone to remove an aria-label from an interactive control that has actual visible text, I could have bought Twitter! As a former developer and current accessibility consultant, it is my sincere hope that by reading this article,...
Maggie Appleton
A Metaphorical Reading Collection A collection of my favourite books on conceptual metaphor theory
over a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
Liftmaster 87504-267 This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a...
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This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a new garage door opener, the Liftmaster 87504-267. It works so much better than my old insecure garage door! Internet access is the surprise best feature; I use it all the time....
Elad Blog
AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by...
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In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by startups versus incumbents differs. In some waves it all goes to startups, while in others it goes to incumbents or is split between them. Unexpectedly, the prior wave of
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Snapshot Testing A smoll intro to snapshot testing
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Kevin Chen
SIGCSE 2018 notes SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
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SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric design to...
Making software...
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest...
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The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever made and you're wrong if you think otherwise. No laptop hardware has since surpassed the nearly perfect build of the X220. New devices continue to get thinner and more...
A Smart Bear
In command Being "in control" is impossible, perhaps not even desirable. Being "in command" is ideal: honest,...
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Being "in control" is impossible, perhaps not even desirable. Being "in command" is ideal: honest, introspective, agile, aware, and proactive.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Beginner interaction design with Principle Earlier this year when I was designing this site, I had a bit of a problem: I wanted to go above and...
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Earlier this year when I was designing this site, I had a bit of a problem: I wanted to go above and beyond with the animations and…
Charles Chen
The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 1 The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
over a year ago
David Crawshaw
Leaving Google Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work...
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Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work filled with excellent coworkers. I am sad to be leaving Fuchsia before 1.0. As an operating system it gets so many things right. No doubt I will get a chance to be a user. For the...
Ink & Switch
Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration.
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HTMHell
Template for accessibility guidelines by Steve Frenzel Foreword This template is opinionated and intended as a starting point for those...
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by Steve Frenzel Foreword This template is opinionated and intended as a starting point for those who want to define how accessibility is dealt with in their company. It does not matter whether your title is developer, designer, project manager or something else. I created it...
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How and Why to Un-Reset Tailwind's CSS Reset > 2021 edit: note that [tailwind typography now comes with a `not-prose`...
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> 2021 edit: note that [tailwind typography now comes with a `not-prose` class](https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-typography-v0-5#undo-prose-styles) that unsets typography styles
James Vaughan's blog
Finding Free Food with Python
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David Heinemeier...
The origin of Ruby on Rails I can't thank Honeypot and Carolina Cabral enough for the producing The Rails Documentary that was...
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I can't thank Honeypot and Carolina Cabral enough for the producing The Rails Documentary that was just released today. Looking back on those early, formative years of Ruby on Rails with Tobi, Jamis, Jeremy, and Jason was actually kind of profound. I usually don't spend much time...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I made SumatraPDF crash less You don’t want your software to crash, do you? This post describes my experiences in making...
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You don’t want your software to crash, do you? This post describes my experiences in making SumatraPDF crash less. SumatraPDF is a Windows desktop app. It’s a fast viewer for PDF, ePub, comic books etc.. It’s small and yet full of features. Know thy crashes The most...
ntietz.com blog -...
Parsing MIDI messages in Rust I'm working on a terrible idea of a project, and this project uses MIDI. That means I need a MIDI...
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I'm working on a terrible idea of a project, and this project uses MIDI. That means I need a MIDI implementation! I chose to use an existing library, midir, to connect to devices and receive messages. But the reason I was interested in this not-yet-announced project is because I...
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Array 1.43.0: Massive performance improvements! Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
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Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! Need to update a self-hosted instance…
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Why open-source projects are essential for large businesses The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel...
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The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel of modern technology’s canon and it continues to…
Eric Bailey
Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall...
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Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall “feature”. Talking to even one person who works in cybersecurity, political advocacy, domestic abuse prevention, LGBTQ+ support, etc. would reveal the full, naked horror this sort of...
Tinker, Tamper,...
Understanding Common Table Expressions in SQL One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or...
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One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or “WITH queries”. I’ll explain the mental model that helped me make sense of them, and how to use them to execute recursive queries. Afterwards I’ll show how to apply these techniques...
Kevin Chen
Why we still can’t stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed checkout clerk, you...
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Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed checkout clerk, you soon realize that half the patrons leave without actually checking out their books! This leaves everyone else scratching their heads when the catalog doesn’t match the shelves....
A Beautiful Site
Netscape support ending in February 2008 On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web...
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On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web browsers effective February 1, 2008. This doesn't come as much of a surprise, considering the significant decline in Netscape's marketshare over the past decade to more competative...
A Smart Bear
Explore vs Execute The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a...
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The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a culture-shift to switch from one to the other.
Dan Slimmon
Podcast: Small Batches with Adam Hawkins I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We...
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I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We discussed a huge variety of topics. Here is the full episode, and on that page you’ll find meticulously timestamped links to specific topics. Check out the rest of Adam’s podcast, it’s...
alexwlchan
Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or...
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I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or dynamic visualisation – just a static map with coloured dots for each coordinate. I’ve created maps on the web using Leaflet.js, which load map data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and...
David Heinemeier...
Imperfections create connections The engine is in wrong place in a Porsche 911. It's hanging out the back, swinging the car like a...
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The engine is in wrong place in a Porsche 911. It's hanging out the back, swinging the car like a pendulum. And that's key to why it's the most iconic sports car ever made. This fundamental imperfection is part of how it creates the connection. This is true of mechanical watches...
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Array 1.34.0 PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for...
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PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for projects, smart names for all insights, an entire Data Management tool as well as support for horizontal scalability!
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the “Lite” variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
HTMHell
#22 the good ol’ div link Context: A link to another page. Bad code <div>About us</div> <div...
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Context: A link to another page. Bad code <div>About us</div> <div onClick="location.href='about.html'"> About us </div> <div data-page="aboutus" data-url="index.php"> About us </div> …or any other variation of this pattern where an element other than <a> is used to link to a...
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HTML Dark Mode HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode...
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HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode where I explained how to implement a very basic “dark mode” by using the prefers-color-scheme CSS attribute. This stills works perfectly fine, and in fact there is a cleaner variation...
Darek Kay
A guide to bookmarklets I'm a frequent user of bookmarklets. As I'm sharing some of them on my blog, I wrote this post to...
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I'm a frequent user of bookmarklets. As I'm sharing some of them on my blog, I wrote this post to explain what bookmarklets are and how to use them. In short, a bookmarklet is a browser bookmark containing JavaScript code. Clicking the bookmark executes the script in the context...
A Smart Bear
You're a little company, now act like one You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the...
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You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
Remains of the Day
The Uncanny Valley of Interactivity I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from...
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over a year ago
I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from structural ossification in the music, film, and publishing businesses, to name the most prominent. One of the ways this manifests is in the one-way broadcast nature of much of our...
Steve Klabnik
What's next for SemVer
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Basta’s Notes
Go fix your bugs An exploration of some bugs you might not have known that you had
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Darek Kay
Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This...
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I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This distinction has been working until recently, but with Firefox 95, the browser dark theme will enforce dark mode on websites as well. This sounds like a good default, but I want to...
alexwlchan
Unexpected errors in the BagIt area Last week, James Truitt asked a question on Mastodon: James Truitt (he/him) ...
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Last week, James Truitt asked a question on Mastodon: James Truitt (he/him) @linguistory@code4lib.social Mastodon #digipres folks happen to have a handy repo of small invalid bags for testing purposes? I'm trying to...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Stealth Airplanes & Best Practices I recently finished reading (actually listening to as it was an audiobook) Skunk Works: A Personal...
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a year ago
I recently finished reading (actually listening to as it was an audiobook) Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Ben Rich. tldr; I quite enjoyed the (audio)book. It’s a fascinating look at how a collective group of people can find innovative solutions at the...
Liz Denys
Save Congestion Pricing! Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of...
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Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of congestion pricing on June 30. Your voice is urgently needed to stand up for a funded MTA with increased accessibility, a healthy planet, and good government in New York. Stop a $15...
Writing - Andreas...
It’s hard to grow without trust Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key inhibitor).
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Epic Web Dev
Motion Safe and Motion Reduce Modifiers (tip)
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charity.wtf
Every Achievement Has A Denominator One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure...
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over a year ago
One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure their own status, rank or value by the number of teams and people “under” them. Everyone knows you aren’t supposed to do this, but most of us secretly, sheepishly do it anyway to some...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2024 The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara....
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The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara. I actually have no idea what the original purpose was, so I’m curious to see if anyone can convince me as to what this thing did, presumably for many years and millions of times....
Yale e360
The most important goal in designing software is understandability When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is...
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a year ago
When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is understandability. Security, performance, and correctness are all important, but they come after understandability. Don't get me wrong, all of those are important. Software that isn't...
Steve Klabnik
For science: I'm killing my cell phone
over a year ago
Making software...
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
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over a year ago
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it's parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout). This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
On Test Automation
RestAssured .NET in 2024 - a review As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over...
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As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over the changes, bug fixes and new features that have been introduced in RestAssured .NET in 2024. This year, I released 7 new versions of the library, and while none of the versions...
Eric Bailey
Keeping track of letter-spacing, some guidelines
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Myth: Alternate text and automation
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How to Download Twitter Spaces That Aren't Yours Grabbing the audio
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Confused bit
Teaching the Rust Borrow Checker Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be...
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over a year ago
Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be expressible in safe Rust, but is beyond the understanding of the borrow checker. Although its use cases are probably rather niche, I still found it potentially useful. Anyway, it’s a good...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
C++ engineering decision in SumatraPDF code SumatraPDF is a medium size (120k+ loc, not counting dependencies) Windows GUI (win32) C++ code base...
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SumatraPDF is a medium size (120k+ loc, not counting dependencies) Windows GUI (win32) C++ code base started by me and written by mostly 2 people. The goals of SumatraPDF are to be: fast small packed with features and yet with thoughtfully minimal UI It’s not just a matter of...
Marc Astbury
Building a Simple Chrome Extension with ChatGPT I’ve casually been learning some JS via Mimo and Udemy for the past couple of months. It is fun and...
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a year ago
I’ve casually been learning some JS via Mimo and Udemy for the past couple of months. It is fun and I get some dopamine seeing a nice animation when completing a lesson on Mimo, however, it is pretty abstracted from a real environment. I learn things best under two conditions:...
Irrational...
Service onboarding model for Uber (2014). At the core of Uber’s service migration strategy (2014) is understanding the service onboarding...
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At the core of Uber’s service migration strategy (2014) is understanding the service onboarding process, and identifying the levers to speed up that process. Here we’ll develop a system model representing that onboarding process, and exercise the model to test a number of...
Oxide Computer...
Engineering a culture We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a...
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a year ago
We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a regression — and the team quickly jumped on it, getting it root caused and fixed. But on the other, this particular issue was something of an Oxide object lesson, representative not...
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Avoiding Flash of Unthemed Code If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before JavaScript loads. Here is the solution.
Liz Denys
Where books travel i I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
i I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen years ago, but at a higher premium," and deeply internalize my physical constraints for the next six hours. A small box outlined by my seat, the side of the plane with its tiny...
Yale e360
A student asked how I keep us innovative. I don't. Last week, I did a Q&A session for a friend's security class. One of the students asked a question...
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a year ago
Last week, I did a Q&A session for a friend's security class. One of the students asked a question that I loved. They asked something like, "As a principal engineer, how do you make sure your company stays at the forefront of innovation?" There are two reasons I love this...
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: December
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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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3 months ago
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.
The Pragmatic...
Lyft in Trouble Financials paint a worrying picture of the US’s #2 ridesharing company. The founders have just...
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over a year ago
Financials paint a worrying picture of the US’s #2 ridesharing company. The founders have just stepped down and a former Amazon executive is the new CEO. What does this major change mean?
TokyoDev
How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan “Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s...
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8 months ago
“Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. So I began my very first, brief and spontaneous trip to any Asian country, in February of 2024. I’m sure I wasn’t the first or last tourist with such ideas...
Blog of Simple...
Meta loses key privacy battle
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
over a year ago
Sometimes It Works...
Punctuated Excitement Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new...
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over a year ago
Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new acquaintances about what I do, the conversation usually finishes in 30 seconds with them saying something like “oh yeah, IT, I thought so” or “so you’re a web designer?” So I...
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Myths (and truths) I've learned from 10 years of startup hiring I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired...
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over a year ago
I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired for teams across engineering, ops, people, marketing…