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17th Jan 2020
Searching the Creative Internet Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the...
18th May 2018
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Searching the Creative Internet

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

18th May 2018
Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the 1990s. A place where everything was obscure or new. If you saw something mainstream like a Disney princess, it was because someone had taken the time to handcraft an ASCII art...
Hello world... 8 July 2019 Hello world! I've been blogging for what seems like a very very very long time. However,...
8th Jul 2019
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Hello world...

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

8th Jul 2019
8 July 2019 Hello world! I've been blogging for what seems like a very very very long time. However, all that blogging over the years has been focused on fashion, lifestyle and travel over on another URL and lately, I've been wanting to dig into more design and front-end focused...
AI Regulation There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so.
18th Sep 2023
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AI Regulation

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

18th Sep 2023
There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so.
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1st Oct 2020
Japan's [Employment Security Act](http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail_main?id=10&vm=2&re=) requires a recruitment business to obtain a license. Failure to do so can result in imprisonment of up to a year. While I've met sleazy recruiters, sending them to prison...
Epic Workshop: Major Updates for 2026 (article) Epic Workshop update adds tutorial-first onboarding, interleaved practice, offline videos, improved...
22nd Jan 2026
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Epic Workshop: Major Updates for 2026 (article)

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

22nd Jan 2026
Epic Workshop update adds tutorial-first onboarding, interleaved practice, offline videos, improved playgrounds, a revamped epicshop CLI, and MCP upgrades.
Context as the Moat To build a defensible, enduring business, it is essential to attract, convert, and retain users....
15th Jun 2025
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Context as the Moat

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

15th Jun 2025
To build a defensible, enduring business, it is essential to attract, convert, and retain users. Ideally, customer reliance on your product should deepen over time, making the cost of switching to a competitor prohibitively high. Consumer-facing AI companies are now grappling...
“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including...
1st Sep 2023
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“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies

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

1st Sep 2023
The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. Software is a lot like life — probably because it models our lives — in that it’s constantly changing. The biggest threat to the economic value of code is...
Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side...
11th Dec 2021
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Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams

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

11th Dec 2021
Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side project to come up with a composable and incremental way of driving WebGPU and GPUs in general. #pragma import { getColor } from 'path/to/color' void main() { gl_FragColor =...
The Defender's Window The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek...
16th Aug 2026
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The Defender's Window

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Aug 2026
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek into how the capabilities of a typical threat actor will evolve in upcoming months. I’ve spoken with many organizations over the past few weeks, and one theme is clear: they know they...
24th Feb 2011
Try the Last Internet Kermit Server $ grep kermit /etc/services kermit 1649/tcp What is this mysterious protocol? Who uses it and what...
4th Aug 2023
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Try the Last Internet Kermit Server

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

4th Aug 2023
$ grep kermit /etc/services kermit 1649/tcp What is this mysterious protocol? Who uses it and what is its story? This story is a winding one, beginning in 1981. Kermit is, to the best of my knowledge, the oldest actively-maintained software package with an original developer...
The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
7th May 2021
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The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps

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

7th May 2021
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
Animated Pride Flags Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll...
6th Jun 2023
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Animated Pride Flags

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

6th Jun 2023
Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll learn how to build an animated wavy pride flag using CSS keyframes and linear gradients. We'll also see how to make it dynamic using React. 🏳️‍🌈
Git/Github fork-pull request-update cycle When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having...
19th Feb 2016
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Git/Github fork-pull request-update cycle

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Feb 2016
When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having multiple merge commits and issues with keeping the forked repo in sync. This post addresses solutions for some of the problems.
Coaching and feedback within startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in...
14th Jul 2013
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Coaching and feedback within startups

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

14th Jul 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in the past about the evolution of our culture at Buffer [https://joel.is/post/37639846554/the-evolution-of-culture-at-a-startup]. One of the things we started to do at around 6-7...
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
1st Nov 2019
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Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll

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

1st Nov 2019
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
How fast is swift? Heavy Metal Edition (feat Nardi) The challenge, confirm a friends belief that swift is real system language by simulating buckets of...
12th Jul 2025
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How fast is swift? Heavy Metal Edition (feat Nardi)

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

12th Jul 2025
The challenge, confirm a friends belief that swift is real system language by simulating buckets of particles, at least 100m on the cpu, hopefully beating out rust.
I ended up adding duplicate records on a unique index in MongoDB how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert...
31st Mar 2021
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I ended up adding duplicate records on a unique index in MongoDB

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Mar 2021
how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert records that conflicted the index constraints
Slack doesn't listen to its users. In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York...
4th Nov 2016
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Slack doesn't listen to its users.

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

4th Nov 2016
In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York Times: That feeling when you think "we should buy a full page in the Times and publish an open letter," and then you do. 💫 pic.twitter.com/BQiEawRA6d — Stewart Butterfield (@stewart)...
4 short stories of our attempts to be lean at our startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s no secret...
2nd Mar 2014
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4 short stories of our attempts to be lean at our startup

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

2nd Mar 2014
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s no secret that I’ve personally been hugely impacted by Eric Ries’ [https://twitter.com/ericries] work and the Lean Startup [http://theleanstartup.com/] movement. Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]...
I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is...
30th Jan 2017
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I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jan 2017
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I've lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I've voted in every presidential election since 1992,
Switching Blot sync from Google Drive to Git <![CDATA[In 2023 I migrated my personal website from Squarespace to Blot. Blot is a static site...
2nd Feb 2025
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Switching Blot sync from Google Drive to Git

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

2nd Feb 2025
<![CDATA[In 2023 I migrated my personal website from Squarespace to Blot. Blot is a static site generator that publishes as a website a folder stored on Google Drive, Dropbox, or a Git repository. Back then I set up Blot to publish a Google Drive folder but I recently switched...
Q&A: The Reality of Labour Contracts in Japan In Japan labour contracts mainly fall into several categories: permanent employment (正社員,...
16th Jan 2026
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Q&A: The Reality of Labour Contracts in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jan 2026
In Japan labour contracts mainly fall into several categories: permanent employment (正社員, seishain) contract employment (契約社員, keiyaku shain) temporary dispatch (派遣社員, haken shain) outsourcing (業務委託契約, gyoumu itaku) When signing a contract, it is vital to understand the...
AGI, agents, and timelines AGI is coming—whether we’re ready or not. I’ve been convinced of this trajectory since GPT-3’s...
6th Feb 2025
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AGI, agents, and timelines

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

6th Feb 2025
AGI is coming—whether we’re ready or not. I’ve been convinced of this trajectory since GPT-3’s release, but recent developments have significantly accelerated my timelines. The first major shift was OpenAI’s breakthrough in test-time compute and its newly demonstrated scaling...
Dealing with Pathological Anxiety in Japan My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The...
10th Jul 2026
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Dealing with Pathological Anxiety in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jul 2026
My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The opportunity to break away from my comfort zone, brave new horizons, and immerse myself in new cultures has probably been the greatest joy I’ve found during my time on this Earth....
Toto C5 Washlet power usage I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I...
26th Aug 2023
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Toto C5 Washlet power usage

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

26th Aug 2023
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I don’t love some details, see notes below. Mostly I wanted to share how much power the thing uses. About 80 Watt-hours a day, or an average of 3 watts. Note this is without the seat...
elementary OS 8.0.1 Available Now It’s been a little over 100 days since elementary OS 8 was released, and we’re proud to announce...
18th Mar 2025
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elementary OS 8.0.1 Available Now

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

18th Mar 2025
It’s been a little over 100 days since elementary OS 8 was released, and we’re proud to announce another round of updates, including a fresh new download. We’ve been hard at work this winter addressing issues that you reported and we’ve added a couple new creature comforts along...
Developer variants Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job titles. I'm talking...
9th Aug 2016
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Developer variants

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Aug 2016
Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job titles. I'm talking about motivations and fulfillment. In my years of writing code and leading projects, I've come to learn a bit about how my teammates, and I, experience success, through a...
2015-01-10 what-if.xkcd.com/124/
10th Jan 2015
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2015-01-10

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

10th Jan 2015
what-if.xkcd.com/124/
Every Frame Perfect A while ago I was reading about Wayland and this quote stuck with me: A stated goal of Wayland is...
13th Jun 2026
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Every Frame Perfect

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jun 2026
A while ago I was reading about Wayland and this quote stuck with me: A stated goal of Wayland is “every frame is perfect”. And I think this is a goal we should all aspire to. Wayland is talking about the technical side of things (modern GPU stacks are very complex and Wayland is...
Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
11th Mar 2019
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Getting Closure on React Hooks

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

11th Mar 2019
Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
SymPy makes math fun again It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast,...
25th Jun 2019
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SymPy makes math fun again

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

25th Jun 2019
It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast, accurate, and without angst. In other words, it is everything I'm not.
Japan's Earthquake and Technology Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in...
16th Mar 2011
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Japan's Earthquake and Technology

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Mar 2011
Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in Northern Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami). Despite Tokyo being several hundred kilometers from the epicenter, it's effects were felt even here (although to a much lesser extent than...
5 production surprises worth investigating As an SRE, I’m a vocal believer in following one’s nose: seeking out surprising phenomena and...
6th Mar 2023
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5 production surprises worth investigating

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

6th Mar 2023
As an SRE, I’m a vocal believer in following one’s nose: seeking out surprising phenomena and getting to the bottom of them. By adopting this habit, we can find and fix many classes of problems before they turn into incidents. Over time, this makes things run much smoother. But...
In Search of Sophistication Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times...
10th Sep 2021
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In Search of Sophistication

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

10th Sep 2021
Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times on social media: "Broken English is a sign of courage and intelligence, and it would be nice if more people remembered that when interacting with immigrants and refugees." This...
My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset 4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my...
15th Jul 2024
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My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset

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

15th Jul 2024
4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771 in 2024, and my backlog mounting to 43GB (according to this script, I have Outstanding Episodes: 11915 (played: 22451)), I am...
Kagi is a good search engine Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been...
13th May 2024
120

Kagi is a good search engine

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

13th May 2024
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...
1st Dec 2023
Tech metaphors Tired of referencing the same yaks, sheds, and cars over and over again? Here’s a few new metaphors...
11th Nov 2019
22

Tech metaphors

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

11th Nov 2019
Tired of referencing the same yaks, sheds, and cars over and over again? Here’s a few new metaphors to drop at your next sprint planning meeting: Winchester Mystery House A mansion in San Jose, California that was once occupied by Sarah Winchester, widow of the eponymous firearms...
Plaid Layoffs and beyond Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people). Today I signed my...
13th Dec 2022
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Plaid Layoffs and beyond

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

13th Dec 2022
Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people). Today I signed my termination agreement, which makes this week my last week as part of Plaid’s infrastructure team. Kelly Sikkema Moving forward While being laid off and having to leave a very talented...
The Gift of Code In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time...
4th Sep 2024
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The Gift of Code

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

4th Sep 2024
In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time 135,000 lines of gifted code created a new era of JavaScript The post The Gift of Code appeared first on The History of the Web.
First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got...
5th Aug 2024
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First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges

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

5th Aug 2024
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got me to learn the language. It's a functional programming language which targets both the BEAM (Erlang's VM) and JavaScript. This makes it appealing as a language that can target both...
Take a hard game, and make it shorter You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels,...
16th Feb 2026
1

Take a hard game, and make it shorter

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

16th Feb 2026
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
Trade offs in designing versatile log format This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and...
25th Mar 2019
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Trade offs in designing versatile log format

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

25th Mar 2019
This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and trade offs abound. I wanted to log events to a file. I had several requirements for my design: it should be simple and therefore easy to implement it should be human-readable it...
Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2 A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2. We’d started seeing issues in our...
5th Oct 2022
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Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Oct 2022
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2. We’d started seeing issues in our Elastic cluster at work, and I was able to isolate the issue in a small, reproducible test case. I shared my code with Elastic engineers, and that helped them identify and fix the...
The evening walk * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago...
3rd Feb 2013
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The evening walk

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

3rd Feb 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago I restarted one of my favorite habits: a daily evening walk. I want to share a couple of reasons why I love this habit so much, and how I recommend starting it if you find that
Putting the “Person” in “Personal Website” The other day I saw a meme that went something like this: Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities...
2nd Oct 2024
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Putting the “Person” in “Personal Website”

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

2nd Oct 2024
The other day I saw a meme that went something like this: Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities like singing, dancing, and making art have been turned into skills instead of being recognized as behaviors? The point of doing these things has become to get good at them. But...
The Future of CSS ✨ Every year, browser vendors collaborate via the Interop project to synchronize their efforts on new...
3 days ago
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The Future of CSS ✨

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

3 days ago
Every year, browser vendors collaborate via the Interop project to synchronize their efforts on new HTML/CSS/JS features. This year, there’s a ton of super exciting features being considered! In this blog post, we’ll explore the CSS of the future, to get a glimpse of what we’ll...
Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
19th Feb 2021
1

Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards

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

19th Feb 2021
Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
You Can't "Vibe Code" Love About six months ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in...
31st Aug 2026
0

You Can't "Vibe Code" Love

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Aug 2026
About six months ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely take speaking engagements, especially international ones, but this one arrived at just the right time, the right place, and with the right person – I said yes, on the...
Haunt 0.3.0 released Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years since the last release, and many...
19th Feb 2024
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Haunt 0.3.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Feb 2024
Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years since the last release, and many fixes and improvements have been accumulated so this is long overdue! About Haunt Haunt is a static site generator that uses the Guile Scheme as its configuration language. It...
Creating and Remembering a Strong Passphrase We all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique...
3rd Aug 2019
1

Creating and Remembering a Strong Passphrase

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

3rd Aug 2019
We all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique passwords. Unique passwords however present a difficult problem.
Enhancements to the Kagi search experience We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
3rd May 2023
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Enhancements to the Kagi search experience

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

3rd May 2023
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
How to clean up after your NextJS dev server Sometimes you need to modify files when building a web application that must be reverted before...
10th Nov 2023
1

How to clean up after your NextJS dev server

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Nov 2023
Sometimes you need to modify files when building a web application that must be reverted before committing. In my case I’m building a Chrome extension that reads from a NextJS based web service, and when I’m working on the browser extension it reads from http://localhost:3005, so...
My Favorite Macbook Tools This list is outdated. For a list of macOS apps that I'm currently using, click here. I could spend...
9th Jan 2020
1

My Favorite Macbook Tools

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

9th Jan 2020
This list is outdated. For a list of macOS apps that I'm currently using, click here. I could spend days just tweaking things on my computer. Actually, I do. Whenever I see something annoying, I want to drop everything and try to fix it right away. It can be anything. From a...
The Manager's Handbook I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The...
9th Sep 2021
48

The Manager's Handbook

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

9th Sep 2021
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon (along with the free web version). If you've read and enjoyed it, please Tweet about how it'
A Mental Model for Data in UI Applications A technology-agnostic model of the layers that naturally arise in any reasonably sized application,...
26th Sep 2025
1

A Mental Model for Data in UI Applications

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

26th Sep 2025
A technology-agnostic model of the layers that naturally arise in any reasonably sized application, and the abstract properties of each layer.
Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to...
29th Aug 2007
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Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php

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

29th Aug 2007
When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to increment the time by one day. This can become problematic for two main reasons. Issues with leap years # A year has approximately 365.25 days, hence a leap year occurs once every four...
Captain's Log #1 In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech...
11th Nov 2022
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Captain's Log #1

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

11th Nov 2022
In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech businesses, and more.
I have not failed enough I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast...
30th Dec 2023
35

I have not failed enough

from Jibran’s Perspective [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Dec 2023
I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast and started to think about how often I had failed in the past few years. The first answer was - not too much. I couldn’t think of too many instances of where I had “failed”. This was...
I have no idea what I am doing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a...
3rd Jul 2011
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I have no idea what I am doing

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

3rd Jul 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a special thanks to my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] who listened to and discussed some of these thoughts with me before I turned them into a blog post. In the last few...
One page of async Rust I’m writing a simulation, or rather, I’m procrastinating, and this blog post is the result of me...
17th Feb 2026
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One page of async Rust

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

17th Feb 2026
I’m writing a simulation, or rather, I’m procrastinating, and this blog post is the result of me going off on a side-track from the main quest. The simulation involves a bunch of tasks that go through a series of steps with delays in between, and each step can affect some...
How autonomous vehicle simulation works When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they...
7th Jun 2024
74

How autonomous vehicle simulation works

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

7th Jun 2024
When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they lean heavily on their testing in simulation. Common talking points take the form of “we made our car drive X billion miles in simulation.” From these vague statements, it’s...
dict() vs. {} There are two different ways to create a dictionary. You can call the dict() function or use the...
1st Dec 2022
1

dict() vs. {}

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

1st Dec 2022
There are two different ways to create a dictionary. You can call the dict() function or use the literal syntax: {}. And in many cases, these are equivalent choices, so you might give it little thought and assume they both take the same amount of time. But they don't! Starting...
Better Buttons with color-mix() and Custom Properties Let's build a button that accepts one color and calculates its hover and focus states automatically....
23rd Aug 2023
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Better Buttons with color-mix() and Custom Properties

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

23rd Aug 2023
Let's build a button that accepts one color and calculates its hover and focus states automatically. For this experiment, we'll use CSS Custom Properties, color-mix(), and OKLCH to ensure that tints and shades are perceptually uniform. To keep things simple, we'll follow today's...
Speculative Calendar Events Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems
7th Jan 2024
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Speculative Calendar Events

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

7th Jan 2024
Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems
What I'm up to - May 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st May 2026
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What I'm up to - May 2026

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

1st May 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in April - Visited NYC briefly. Discovered a new cafe I like called WatchHouse - they even happened to be...
Based-30b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/based-30b So, as I was working on Wizard-Vicuna-30b-Uncensored and...
3rd Jun 2023
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Based-30b

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

3rd Jun 2023
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/based-30b So, as I was working on Wizard-Vicuna-30b-Uncensored and WizardLM-Uncensored-Falcon-7b, I came to the realization that these models, despite being trained with no refusals, were still refusing. How could this be? It dawned on me, that...
My Remote Desk Remote Culture A rant It doesn’t make sense to mandate that I sit in the same building as you to...
7th Nov 2016
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My Remote Desk

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

7th Nov 2016
Remote Culture A rant It doesn’t make sense to mandate that I sit in the same building as you to work on things somewhat related to the things you work on. By recognizing this fact, both employers and employees now have a great deal of freedom (for some value of the word...
Web We Want Progress Update - November 2020 13 November 2020 We've been driving the Web We Want for over a year now, asking developers what they...
13th Nov 2020
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Web We Want Progress Update - November 2020

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

13th Nov 2020
13 November 2020 We've been driving the Web We Want for over a year now, asking developers what they think is missing from the web platform or DevTools. Before COVID-19, we had run 9 WWW sessions at events with plans to do more. Behind the scenes we’ve been working out a plan on...
Trolley Problems as a Service Consider: It’s not getting any simpler to live in this world, is it?  💔 Ethical problems are hard. ...
30th May 2020
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Trolley Problems as a Service

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

30th May 2020
Consider: It’s not getting any simpler to live in this world, is it?  💔 Ethical problems are hard.  Even the ones that seem straightforward on the face of them get stickier the closer you look at them.  There are more stakeholders, more caveats, more cautionary tales, more...
Where the Bitter Lesson ends Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the...
27th Mar 2024
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Where the Bitter Lesson ends

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

27th Mar 2024
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the thing we built can do the engineering. Clips have been making the rounds on Twitter from my second Lex about the “bishop guy” in a chess engine, or a “cone guy” in a self driving...
Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and...
12th Jul 2023
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Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex

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

12th Jul 2023
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts: In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and...
Using AWK like grep with envvars This is a little tip that was impossible for me to DuckDuckGo (that’s right, I use DuckDuckGo like a...
6th May 2018
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Using AWK like grep with envvars

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

6th May 2018
This is a little tip that was impossible for me to DuckDuckGo (that’s right, I use DuckDuckGo like a verb). Like everyone who lives the daily joy (and, frequently, deep frustration) of using the command line to accomplish day-to-day tasks I am a fairly deft manipulator of...
Care about how the work is done High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
30th Dec 2023
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Care about how the work is done

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

30th Dec 2023
High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
The perfect web framework for UX developers In June 2023 I had my final frontend rage-quit moment. The anger was so intense that I decided to...
23rd Jan 2024
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The perfect web framework for UX developers

from Nue developer blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Jan 2024
In June 2023 I had my final frontend rage-quit moment. The anger was so intense that I decided to change the direction of my career from a startup founder to a full-time OSS developer. I would devote all my time to fixing everything that is wrong with the current front-end...
The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals,...
7th Mar 2024
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The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend

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

7th Mar 2024
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.
Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web
2nd Jan 2021
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Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams

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

2nd Jan 2021
The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web
27th Apr 2026
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AI Homelab Part 1: I keep Daddy in the basement

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

27th Apr 2026
My AI homelab named Daddy
(incomplete) Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 We have just come off a very intense production period of the first AI Engineer World's Fair, the...
29th Jun 2024
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(incomplete) Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024

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

29th Jun 2024
We have just come off a very intense production period of the first AI Engineer World's Fair, the large, multi-track format of the AI Engineer series of conferences that my biz partner Ben and I are building. I am historically bad at writing down lessons and thoughts, so I am...
Why you should continue working on your bad idea * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The brick...
1st Sep 2012
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Why you should continue working on your bad idea

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

1st Sep 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are...
Handmade Seattle 2023 A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
11th Jan 2024
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Handmade Seattle 2023

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

11th Jan 2024
A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with the following abstract: An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.” Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface...
Managing Python Ecosystems You know that old quote: The wider the net you cast, the wider the variety you catch. Was it a wise...
24th May 2016
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Managing Python Ecosystems

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th May 2016
You know that old quote: The wider the net you cast, the wider the variety you catch. Was it a wise old fisherman? Or a dogged Python programmer? Either way, words don't come much truer than those. Few, if any, programming languages have embodied the description "general-purpose"...
JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference? Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What...
6th Sep 2021
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JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference?

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

6th Sep 2021
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is TypeScript?” and if you haven’t, it won’t be long before you do.
Leaving Stripe I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I...
6th May 2015
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Leaving Stripe

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th May 2015
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I soon discovered the deep satisfaction of having others actually use my creations. It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted to build a startup. Startups # Throughout college, I...
What I'm up to - June 2022 I'm testing a monthly email about what I'm doing! ✨ Highlights of last month - I finished the...
1st Jun 2022
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What I'm up to - June 2022

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

1st Jun 2022
I'm testing a monthly email about what I'm doing! ✨ Highlights of last month - I finished the first version of Postcard, which is a personal website + mailing list tool I'm building. (If you w...
Why Bad AI Is Here to Stay It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes to AI: skeptic or...
2nd Feb 2025
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Why Bad AI Is Here to Stay

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2025
It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes to AI: skeptic or fanatic. The skeptic thinks AI sucks, that it’s overhyped, it only ever parrots nonsense and it will all blow over soon. The fanatic thinks general human-level intelligence is just...
.NET Source Generators with .NET 7 Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
15th Aug 2023
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.NET Source Generators with .NET 7

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

15th Aug 2023
Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
What Are Software Developers Called In Japan? The “Dev” in TokyoDev stands for “developers.” Our founder, Paul McMahon, has always called himself...
1st Dec 2025
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What Are Software Developers Called In Japan?

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2025
The “Dev” in TokyoDev stands for “developers.” Our founder, Paul McMahon, has always called himself a developer because he’s from Canada, where only licensed professionals call themselves engineers. Yet the job title Software Developer (ソフトウェア開発者) is only rarely used in...
Speed up Laravel tests with database transactions How I used transactions to make my tests run eight times faster.
30th May 2014
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Speed up Laravel tests with database transactions

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

30th May 2014
How I used transactions to make my tests run eight times faster.
Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique...
2nd Dec 2024
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Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux

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

2nd Dec 2024
English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique standard Vulkan. Le projet Asahi Linux est fier d’annoncer le premier pilote Vulkan 1.4 pour le matériel d’Apple. En effet, notre pilote graphique Honeykrisp est reconnu par...
Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing) Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1 Exactly 3 months and a day...
4th Feb 2022
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Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing)

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

4th Feb 2022
Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1 Exactly 3 months and a day after placing an order through a Romanian Apple reseller, I finally got my 14-inch M1 Max. Well, actually.. I first got the wrong configuration (base model instead of CTO), had to...
Ways to bootstrap a startup: &quot;working in waves&quot; * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the...
5th Dec 2010
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Ways to bootstrap a startup: &quot;working in waves&quot;

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

5th Dec 2010
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the last year and a half after graduating from the University of Warwick juggling working on startups and working as a contract web developer. I’d like to share some of my reflections...
AWS Cloudfront SSL Cert Setup an Comodo positive SSL cert on AWS Cloudfront Buy Comodo positive SSL cert via...
24th Nov 2015
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AWS Cloudfront SSL Cert

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

24th Nov 2015
Setup an Comodo positive SSL cert on AWS Cloudfront Buy Comodo positive SSL cert via namecheap Inspect last years cert: openssl req -noout -text -in tylercipriani_com.csr Generate private key and signing request You can generate a new key as a separate step, or as part of...
Overcast 4.1 now available Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually...
14th Mar 2018
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Overcast 4.1 now available

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

14th Mar 2018
Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually two features: It jumps back by up to a few seconds after having been paused to help remind you of the conversation. It slightly adjusts resumes and seeks to fall in the silences...
The Best Illustration Books and Courses My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
6th Jul 2019
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The Best Illustration Books and Courses

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

6th Jul 2019
My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
Evolution of my role as a founder CTO There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most...
6th Dec 2020
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Evolution of my role as a founder CTO

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Dec 2020
There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most of it focused on the CEO role. The generic advice on leadership also applies to other non-CEO roles, but I could not find a lot of content targeted to technical founders. In fact,...
The Fidelity Trap If you hang out on Twitter, you’ll realize that every designer, PM, and their dog are now...
3rd Jul 2025
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The Fidelity Trap

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

3rd Jul 2025
If you hang out on Twitter, you’ll realize that every designer, PM, and their dog are now engineers.  LLMs have dramatically reduced the barrier to building something and designers who’ve never been able to go beyond a spaghetti Figma prototype suddenly feel like Superman. But...
Why is it easier to teach girls to code than to teach ourselves to treat women well? When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the...
7th Oct 2014
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7th Oct 2014
When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the pipeline fails young women. I would be lying if I didn't think there's room for improvement here - I've written about my own negative experiences as a young programmer - and it's exciting...
OCaml documentation as markdown Turn your OCaml API documentation into publishable Markdown
3rd Mar 2026
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OCaml documentation as markdown

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2026
Turn your OCaml API documentation into publishable Markdown
Update to Kagi Search pricing It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and...
8th Mar 2023
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Update to Kagi Search pricing

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

8th Mar 2023
It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and we have been busy with three main large-scale initiatives: a new pricing model that ensures Kagi’s sustainability, new plans including Family plans, and enhancing search experience...
An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful...
21st Nov 2023
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid

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

21st Nov 2023
CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the biggest 💡 lightbulb...
Name that Ware, October 2024 The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last...
30th Oct 2024
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Name that Ware, October 2024

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

30th Oct 2024
The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last month’s ware. The main reason I liked this ware is actually the board shown below with the prominent star-routing. It’s such traditional hand-routing work, I love craftsmanship like...
Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that...
6th Nov 2021
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Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances

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

6th Nov 2021
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
Park Games As the shedding of the luck-bean tree forms coral carpets on the grass below; as the birds begin...
17th Sep 2022
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Park Games

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

17th Sep 2022
As the shedding of the luck-bean tree forms coral carpets on the grass below; as the birds begin their morning song earlier into the fourth watch of the night, calling the sun to come out to play; as new flowering greens shoot out of chronic brown branches; urban nature dances to...
PWA: What it is and why you should try it The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of...
20th Jan 2023
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PWA: What it is and why you should try it

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

20th Jan 2023
The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of November 2022, 60.28 percent of all web traffic came through mobile phones. Providing a good mobile user experience is therefore crucial to attract and retain users. Mobile applications...
Visualizing Git’s Merkle DAG with D3.js The Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is a concept I run into over-and-over again; which is, perhaps,...
21st Mar 2016
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Visualizing Git’s Merkle DAG with D3.js

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

21st Mar 2016
The Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is a concept I run into over-and-over again; which is, perhaps, somewhat ironic. A DAG is a representation of vertices (nodes) that are connected by directional edges (arcs—i.e., lines) in such a way that there are no cycles (e.g., starting at...
Logs vs Structured Events I got an interesting tweet the other day from @evntdrvn in response to this thread of mine....
5th Feb 2019
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Logs vs Structured Events

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

5th Feb 2019
I got an interesting tweet the other day from @evntdrvn in response to this thread of mine. Paraphrasing, “So I’ve almost got our group at work up to Step 1 in your observability maturity model, but some of the devs that I work with want to turn OFF our lovely structured logging...
I was interviewed for a podcast My work interviewed me as part of their "employee spotlight" series.
29th Oct 2016
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I was interviewed for a podcast

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

29th Oct 2016
My work interviewed me as part of their "employee spotlight" series.
There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0 Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about...
19th Nov 2024
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There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0

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

19th Nov 2024
Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about observability 2.0 a lot lately; what it means for telemetry and instrumentation, its practices and sociotechnical implications, and the dramatically different shape of its cost model. With all...
Eating the Cloud from Outside In AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
4th Oct 2021
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Eating the Cloud from Outside In

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

4th Oct 2021
AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
1st Mar 2024
Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When...
4th May 2020
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Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography

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

4th May 2020
Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When a message is sent, particularly using an untrusted medium, data integrity provides us with confidence that the message wasn’t tampered with. For example, the SSL signature of...
How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into...
14th Jan 2024
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How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases

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

14th Jan 2024
Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the problems they've solved.
Anchoring Software to Major Versions In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see...
24th May 2024
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Anchoring Software to Major Versions

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

24th May 2024
In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see software projects anchor themselves to major versions for long periods of time, usually with the promise of stability. We all know how frustrating it is to upgrade a package and run...
Pre-Partner Early yesterday morning, on the second day of Blink On, I received the news that I had officially...
9th Apr 2025
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Pre-Partner

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

9th Apr 2025
Early yesterday morning, on the second day of Blink On, I received the news that I had officially moved from Staff level to Pre-Partner at Igalia. This largely means that I now participate in decision-making with the rest of those Igalians who are pre-partners and partners. I...
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to...
10th Jul 2024
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Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad

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

10th Jul 2024
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to run both OpenBSD and some form of Linux variation on my personal machines. Most times, I would default to running one OS on bare metal, while the other would simply live in a VM....
15th Mar 2016
A New Dog “What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their...
6th May 2023
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A New Dog

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

6th May 2023
“What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their living room with her phone. He was growing tired of her ever-new discoveries and project ideas, and he didn’t know if he had the energy to stomach this new one. But she was too busy...
Writing Skills for Engineering Managers Managers at every level are prisoners of the notion that a simple style reflects a simple mind....
31st Oct 2021
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Writing Skills for Engineering Managers

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

31st Oct 2021
Managers at every level are prisoners of the notion that a simple style reflects a simple mind. Actually a simple style is the result of hard work and hard thinking – William Zinsser, On Writing Well Every software engineering manager’s most precious resource is time. But you...
#1 button disguised as a link Bad code <button role="link" title="Name of website" tabindex="0"> <img alt="Name of website"...
17th Oct 2019
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#1 button disguised as a link

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Oct 2019
Bad code <button role="link" title="Name of website" tabindex="0"> <img alt="Name of website" src="logo.jpg" title="Name of website"> </button> Issues and how to fix them Wrong usage of the button element. There’s an element for linking to external sites (<a>). Do not change...
1st Sep 2020
a perfect blog editor What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
11th May 2020
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a perfect blog editor

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

11th May 2020
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
COC: A new metric for thinking about cancellations in SaaS business models Introducing COC: The true cost of cancellations in a scaling SaaS business.
6th Aug 2013
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COC: A new metric for thinking about cancellations in SaaS business models

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

6th Aug 2013
Introducing COC: The true cost of cancellations in a scaling SaaS business.
Grumpy Julio plays with CLI coding agents Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article
9th Feb 2026
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Grumpy Julio plays with CLI coding agents

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

9th Feb 2026
Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article
Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make...
2nd Jun 2020
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Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup

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

2nd Jun 2020
AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make it work with Rollup with a few tweaks.
Hiring as an incomplete information game Hiring is an incomplete information game and to succeed you have to treat it as such.
18th Oct 2025
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Hiring as an incomplete information game

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

18th Oct 2025
Hiring is an incomplete information game and to succeed you have to treat it as such.
finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control...
22nd Jul 2024
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finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jul 2024
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...
The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst....
3rd Nov 2022
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The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter

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

3rd Nov 2022
Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst. What is happening, and why?
Programming Portals Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple...
23rd Oct 2022
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Programming Portals

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

23rd Oct 2022
Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes
Networking Essentials: Congestion Control Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical...
7th Oct 2018
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Networking Essentials: Congestion Control

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

7th Oct 2018
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical streaming applications like Youtube and Skype?
The ghosts that live in my garage Some thoughts about machine learning
13th Jan 2025
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The ghosts that live in my garage

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

13th Jan 2025
Some thoughts about machine learning
Detecting offensive words with Mistral AI 7B When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator, I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words...
6th Dec 2023
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Detecting offensive words with Mistral AI 7B

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

6th Dec 2023
When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator, I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words coming up in the output displayed to users. To solve this problem, I needed a way to detect and filter them out automatically. Do you really need an LLM for that? The problem of...
Linkblog archives I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to...
7th Jan 2023
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Linkblog archives

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

7th Jan 2023
I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to 2003. The UI is a little minimal but usable and it will work for any search indexers, which is what I most care about. Note old posts will have a grey background because I wasn't...
Omarchy is on the move Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed...
5th Aug 2025
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Omarchy is on the move

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

5th Aug 2025
Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed out 18(!) new releases together with a rapidly growing community of collaborators, users, and new-to-Linux enthusiasts. We have about 3,500 early adopters on the Omarchy Discord, 250...
How Binary JSON Works in YDB Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed...
8th Jun 2022
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How Binary JSON Works in YDB

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

8th Jun 2022
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed Queries team of YDB. YDB is a Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions. One of my key tasks there was...
SEO best practices on Sanity When we build a website with Sanity, we configure SEO best practices to rank higher on search engine...
5th Sep 2022
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SEO best practices on Sanity

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

5th Sep 2022
When we build a website with Sanity, we configure SEO best practices to rank higher on search engine result pages.
Home temperature monitoring on the cheap One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions – Grace Hopper One of my many AcuRite...
1st Dec 2022
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Home temperature monitoring on the cheap

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

1st Dec 2022
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions – Grace Hopper One of my many AcuRite 06044M Wireless Temperature and Humidity Monitor Sensors As I meandered around our new house, it was apparent some rooms were sweltering, others were freezing, and the thermostat...
Announcing Hotwire Native 1.2 We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last...
23rd Apr 2025
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Announcing Hotwire Native 1.2

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

23rd Apr 2025
We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last year. The update has several key improvements, bug fixes, and more API consistency between platforms. And we’ve created all new iOS and Android demo apps to show it off! A web-first...
Grats: A More Pleasant Way to Build TypeScript GraphQL Servers Bringing Implementation-First GraphQL to TypeScript via a novel static analysis approach.
5th Mar 2024
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Grats: A More Pleasant Way to Build TypeScript GraphQL Servers

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

5th Mar 2024
Bringing Implementation-First GraphQL to TypeScript via a novel static analysis approach.
Computer Use Models Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command...
18th Dec 2025
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Computer Use Models

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

18th Dec 2025
Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command line. I’m blown away with how good Claude Code is. I assume it was long context RLed in similar environments. I’m excited for open models to get this good, I tried GLM, Qwen3, and...
Speeding up code review with `small-change` Imprint’s average engineer is merging 4x more PRs than 2 years ago. Yay. Aggregated behind the...
6 days ago
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Speeding up code review with `small-change`

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

6 days ago
Imprint’s average engineer is merging 4x more PRs than 2 years ago. Yay. Aggregated behind the average is something even more interesting: we have two teams that are merging 10x their PRs over that period. One engineer is merging 25x the PRs per week of our average engineer two...
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2024 Hope you had a wonderful holiday! I know you might not have been able to take time off, but I hope...
3rd Jan 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2024

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

3rd Jan 2024
Hope you had a wonderful holiday! I know you might not have been able to take time off, but I hope you were able to spend some time with family and friends. I spent the whole week driving up and down the state of Utah. It was fun, but I’m happy to be back in my office. Kids can...
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal...
12th Apr 2021
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The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode

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

12th Apr 2021
The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal blog, I decided to take a closer look at how I was supporting dark mode for my visitors. I was using the proper CSS query to target those who had system-wide dark mode enabled, but I...
Make Beautiful Gradients Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This...
11th Jan 2022
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Make Beautiful Gradients

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

11th Jan 2022
Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
14th Jan 2024
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A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET

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

14th Jan 2024
Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
Making html_of_jsx ~10x faster A story of how static analysis helped improve performance in html_of_jsx
3rd Dec 2025
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Making html_of_jsx ~10x faster

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2025
A story of how static analysis helped improve performance in html_of_jsx
Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser...
4th Jan 2017
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Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size

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

4th Jan 2017
When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser as small as possible. I write in ES6 or TypeScript then use browserify to combine all JavaScript code into a single bundle file. For production builds I use uglify to make the...
On picking side-projects Food for thought on how to pick the right side projects and how to manage them effectively.
7th Mar 2024
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On picking side-projects

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

7th Mar 2024
Food for thought on how to pick the right side projects and how to manage them effectively.
AI Isn’t Replacing Open Source Andrew Baker, the current Group CIO at Capitec Bank wrote an interesting piece on AI and open...
15th Sep 2026
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AI Isn’t Replacing Open Source

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

15th Sep 2026
Andrew Baker, the current Group CIO at Capitec Bank wrote an interesting piece on AI and open source, and how these tools that generate code according to one’s specification may replace the general reliance on open source implementations done by contributors around the world. I’d...
Referencing subscriber tags in your newsletter Use tags with templating to customize your emails!
12th Feb 2021
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Referencing subscriber tags in your newsletter

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

12th Feb 2021
Use tags with templating to customize your emails!
Human + Fallible = Love; Corporate + Sterile = Refund People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy...
1st Sep 2024
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Human + Fallible = Love; Corporate + Sterile = Refund

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

1st Sep 2024
People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy customers, even when you mess up.
Three Jobs of Containers A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
1st Mar 2020
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Three Jobs of Containers

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

1st Mar 2020
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
So you want to make a public comment! mini-zine I've been testifying at local public meetings for safer streets and more housing and affordable...
28th Jun 2025
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So you want to make a public comment! mini-zine

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

28th Jun 2025
I've been testifying at local public meetings for safer streets and more housing and affordable housing, and sometimes people ask me how they can do the same and what to expect. I decided to make a mini-zine that tries to demystify speaking up at public meetings: All text in the...
Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of...
17th Jan 2023
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Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode

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

17th Jan 2023
You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of pixels. You notice you never use the MacBook built-in display anymore, and it nags you to have it in your lower peripheral vision. Closing the lid is not an option because you...
Hardbrücke, Zürich The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite...
2nd Sep 2012
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Hardbrücke, Zürich

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

2nd Sep 2012
The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite a captivating neighborhood. It's literally quite colorful, and home to Freitag's flagship store.
What I'm up to - December 2022 ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of...
1st Dec 2022
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What I'm up to - December 2022

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

1st Dec 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of signups, which was more than I expected. Overall, a great start! - Did a smaller launch for The Cont...
27th Mar 2023
The Future of Shoelace It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of...
17th Oct 2022
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The Future of Shoelace

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

17th Oct 2022
It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of the project to ship Web Components. What started off as a fun side project has quickly grown to become one of the most recognized Web Component libraries in the world. As of...
Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced...
18th Aug 2021
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Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP

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

18th Aug 2021
I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced across multiple machines. I also want to keep the history with git. And, I want to use end-to-end encryption (no storing a plain git repo on a remote server), have a serverless...
4th Jan 2026
Machining under a microscope "The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses...
20th Jun 2016
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Machining under a microscope

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

20th Jun 2016
"The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses spade-type end mills as small as 0.001 inch wide, although even smaller tools have been used occasionally." www.mmsonline.com/articles/cutting-with-a-0001-inch-end-mill
Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices...
1st Nov 2024
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter

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

1st Nov 2024
i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices in moving options. TLDR: I made a huge mistake not choosing Clutter.
How I write blog posts every month What I've learned after writing regularly for half a year.
17th Feb 2018
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How I write blog posts every month

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

17th Feb 2018
What I've learned after writing regularly for half a year.
New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of...
5th Aug 2023
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5th Aug 2023
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of our office productivity apps, including several new features in Mail, a much more personal Login & Lock Screen experience with improved accessibility, and a couple of large redesigns...
00 · Beehive Background Contextualizing Beehive
1st Aug 2024
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00 · Beehive Background

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

1st Aug 2024
Contextualizing Beehive
The "Talk vs Walk" framework This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and...
8th Jun 2022
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The "Talk vs Walk" framework

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

8th Jun 2022
This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and Product, generating actions for both sides that make products more desirable and competitive.
7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability...
10th Apr 2025
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7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now

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

10th Apr 2025
To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability tools help them do this by capturing LLM provider…
9th Oct 2024
116

How Fireship became YouTube's favorite programmer

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

9th Oct 2024
How Fireship wins YouTube
Navigate Your Computer the Easy Way Keyboard shortcuts are the ish nizzle, they speed up your computing, they simplify navigation,...
1st Jul 2007
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Navigate Your Computer the Easy Way

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

1st Jul 2007
Keyboard shortcuts are the ish nizzle, they speed up your computing, they simplify navigation, they’re old school. If you can’t navigate your filesystem/computer without touching your mouse, then you aren’t as cool as me, and that’s the straight dope. I’m writing this because I...
Sharing a project I built - Postcard Over the last two years I've quit Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I replaced social media with...
19th May 2022
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Sharing a project I built - Postcard

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

19th May 2022
Over the last two years I've quit Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I replaced social media with newsletters and blogs as the ways I stay in touch. Not many people have blogs - so I built a bot to le...
Pathlib for Path Manipulations If I were to name my top ten modules from the standard library, pathlib would be high on that list....
17th Jul 2023
1

Pathlib for Path Manipulations

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

17th Jul 2023
If I were to name my top ten modules from the standard library, pathlib would be high on that list. It could even make it to the top three. Manipulating paths was always a tricky problem if your code was supposed to work on different operating systems. If you accidentally...
The `<details>` and `<summary>` elements are getting an upgrade Form controls are notoriously difficult to style, something the web community has been talking about...
1st Nov 2024
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The `<details>` and `<summary>` elements are getting an upgrade

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

1st Nov 2024
Form controls are notoriously difficult to style, something the web community has been talking about for years. In 2019, when I was still at Microsoft, I had been working with Greg Whitworth to start evangelizing the work that was being planned for <select>, as well as the Open...
Steam nerfed popular upcoming. So what? In the latest Steam client update, Valve unveiled major changes to its store’s home page. One of the...
12th Jun 2026
2

Steam nerfed popular upcoming. So what?

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

12th Jun 2026
In the latest Steam client update, Valve unveiled major changes to its store’s home page. One of the main difference is that the “Popular Upcoming” section, which shows upcoming games now shows a lot fewer games. This seems to worry indie developers who relied on this section as...
How to use currentColor in your stylesheet I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way...
4th Dec 2014
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How to use currentColor in your stylesheet

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

4th Dec 2014
I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way to reference the current text color when writing CSS. Works in modern browsers, including IE9+. If you use Less or Sass then you probably already use something like @text-color....
2022 Book Roundup In 2021 I only read 6 out of 12 books for my reading challenge. Though to be fair, 4 of those books...
29th Dec 2022
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2022 Book Roundup

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

29th Dec 2022
In 2021 I only read 6 out of 12 books for my reading challenge. Though to be fair, 4 of those books were 900-1000+ page books (The final 4 books of The Wheel of Time). In 2020 I read even less, but pre-2020 I was reading upwards of 24 books a year. In an effort to try to get back...
Reflecting on 10 years of building Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the...
3rd Dec 2020
66

Reflecting on 10 years of building Buffer

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

3rd Dec 2020
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the first version of Buffer. What started as a landing page to gauge interest, and then a very basic product that I worked on alone, has become so much more. Buffer is now a
Guide to fast Next.js Insights into how Tinloof measures website speed with best practices to make faster websites.
15th Jan 2024
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Guide to fast Next.js

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

15th Jan 2024
Insights into how Tinloof measures website speed with best practices to make faster websites.
Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?” It’s a good question. Trucking was...
10th Jan 2024
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Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare

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

10th Jan 2024
Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?” It’s a good question. Trucking was supposed to be the ideal first application of autonomous driving. Freeways contain predictable, highly structured driving scenarios. An autonomous truck would not have to deal with the...
RobotEra Has Two More Robot Olympic Wins! RobotEra has two more Olympic Medals. This time orange peeling (which PI accomplished but needed an...
6th Apr 2026
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RobotEra Has Two More Robot Olympic Wins!

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

6th Apr 2026
RobotEra has two more Olympic Medals. This time orange peeling (which PI accomplished but needed an external tool, which disqualified them) and unlocking a padlock 25% faster than PI’s demonstration.
Martha the Pilot Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically. She’s come along in our...
3rd May 2023
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Martha the Pilot

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

3rd May 2023
Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically. She’s come along in our airplane in short flights to a nearby restaurant and long ones to Michigan and South Dakota. All this time, she’s been riding in the back seat next to Laura. Martha has been talking...
Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be...
13th Sep 2021
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Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

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

13th Sep 2021
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.
Protect Your Wireless Network Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is...
12th May 2013
43

Protect Your Wireless Network

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

12th May 2013
Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is probably the single biggest security hole on any home wireless network. About WiFi Protected Setup WiFi Protected Setup is a security standard that comes enabled by default on many...
Name that Ware, March 2025 The Ware for March 2025 is shown below. I was just taking this thing apart to see what went wrong,...
31st Mar 2025
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Name that Ware, March 2025

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

31st Mar 2025
The Ware for March 2025 is shown below. I was just taking this thing apart to see what went wrong, and thought it had some merit as a name that ware. But perhaps more interestingly, I was also experimenting with my cross-polarized imaging setup. This is a technique a friend of...
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
8th Jul 2024
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Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships

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

8th Jul 2024
Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not...
10th Feb 2025
93

Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals

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

10th Feb 2025
I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate DEI efforts have always struck me as ineffective and bland; bolted on at best, if...
Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager? The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was...
15th Dec 2023
70

Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager?

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

15th Dec 2023
The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was written as a love letter to a friend of mine who was unhappy at work. He was an engineering director at a large and fast-growing startup, where he had substantially built out the entire...
A Programming Career By The Numbers As I continue to recover from some health issues that kept me from writing, I thought it might be...
11th Jan 2024
55

A Programming Career By The Numbers

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

11th Jan 2024
As I continue to recover from some health issues that kept me from writing, I thought it might be interesting to describe my long career with numbers. If you wind up working for four decades, your experience may vary. Years Active: 1981-2021, totaling 39.5 years. Irrespective of...
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